Bonded labour: Tirupur administration to compensate four men from Bihar

Coimbatore | Thursday | 21st March, 2019

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A police complaint against the unit owner and the middleman will be filed soon,” he added.The four men, aged between 19 and 38, are from East Champaran district in Bihar. They were not only given minimum wage but made to do work other than they agreed to a middleman. They came to work in the unit at Parancherivali panchayat in Kangeyam taluk through a middleman, who is also from Bihar, at different time in the past few months. Tirupur: The district administration on Tuesday confirmed that four men from Bihar were treated as bonded labourers at a coir pith unit near Kangeyam.Last week, officials intercepted three of the four men, escaped from the unit, along with three other teenagers who worked at the same unit, at the Central railway station in Chennai. But, in cases like this, only 50% of wages can be deducted and minimum wage should be given..