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Where Labour Policy Has Failed
The Third Five Year Plan seemed to make the simplistic assumption that industrial disputes can be settled by bringing the parties together and independently of any consideration of the underlying economic and technical issues.
The Third Five Year Plan seemed to make the simplistic assumption thai industrial disputes can be settled by bringing the parties together and independently of any consideration of the underlying economic and technical issues
Consequently, while the Plan set out several sweeping policy objectives for labour problems — from recognition of minimum needbased wages to need for a sustained rise in productivity — and saw the principal instruments of an active labour policy to comprise maintenance of industrial peace, workers' participation in management, and observation of the code of discipline by workers and management, it is difficult to say what Government's labour policy over the three Plan periods has actually amounted to
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