Evaluating Musculoskeletal Complications Among Individuals With Diabetes Mellitus

Dr. Simran Maheshwari; Dr. Subhan Quraishi; Dr. Babita Ghodke

Volume : II, Issue : VII, July - 2013

Evaluating Musculoskeletal Complications Among Individuals With Diabetes Mellitus

Dr. Simran Maheshwari, Dr. Subhan Quraishi, Dr. Babita Ghodke

Abstract :

The existing laws do not cover or adequately cover the workforce in the unorganised sector, we have no escape from concluding that more than 90% of our workforce does not enjoy the minimum protection and security that they need. This, then, will be a situation which should shame all those who talk of care and commitment to the rights and welfare of labour, as well as all those who bear responsibility for ensuring the rights and welfare of our people, in particular, the overwhelming majority of our people who are in the labour force. We have many labour laws in our Statute book. All of them do not cover workers in the unorganised/informal sector. All of them are not applicable, and were not meant to be applicable to the employments in the unorganised sector. Some are applicable. But none of the laws that form the base of the social security system covers the whole unorganised sector. We will look at the laws that apply wholly, or partly to this sector. But before we do so, we have to draw attention to the questions or alternatives that arise. One is whether protection and security can be extended by amending existing Acts, mutatis mutandis, to employments and labour in the unorganised sector. The other is whether to achieve the goals of assuring protection and welfare to workers in this sector, we have to enact separate laws for each employment and occupation, including a separate law for the self–employed. A third question is whether one single law can cover the needs of all the workers in the informal/unorganised sector because it does appear that one single law cannot cope with the variety of conditions in a sector, in which even the employer–employee relationship cannot be identified in many cases; where there are vast differences in the state of awareness, literacy, education, skills, degree and level of organisation means of monitoring, etc. The fourth is whether the problem of variety can be solved or addressed by enacting an Umella Law that provides for a minimum of protection, access to welfare or social security, and redressed of grievances, while retaining existing sub–sectoral laws and sub–sectoral welfare systems and providing for the addition of further sub–sectoral systems when and were found necessary