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DIALOGUE

Working Paper No. 40

Employee participation in India

Dr. Ratna Sen

Industrial and Employment Relations Department (DIALOGUE)

August 2012

ILO Decent Work Team for South Asia and Country Office for India

Working Paper No. 40

Employee participation in India

Dr. Ratna Sen

Industrial and Employment Relations Department International Labour Office • Geneva ILO Decent Work Team for South Asia and Country Office for India August 2012

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Murthy, Manager, Operations (member of managers’ forum) Soma Dey, Manager, HR (member of managers’ forum) Araktim Saha, Team Lead Executive (member of PRO-REP) Nupur Gangopadhyay, Senior Subject Specialist, Travel and Exp. (member of PRO-REP) Seppo Majumdar, Assistant Manager, Accounts (member of PRO-REP) Shilpi Sharma, Manager (member of managers’ forum) Coal India Ltd R. Mohan Das, Director, Personnel, Coal Bhavan, Kolkata, and Dalhousie A. K. Raju, Senior Personnel Manager, Kolkata and Dalhousie S. K. Srivastava, Director Personnel, Eastern Coalfields Ltd, Sanctoria, Asansol Probhat Gowami, General Secretary, Colliery Mazdoor Union (INTUC), CMU office, Asansol Safal Sinha, Assistant Secretary, Colliery Mazdoor Sabha (CITU), CMS office, Raniganj Jayashree Textiles Ltd, Rishra A. K. Sinha, Senior Vice-President, HR Rajendra Kaushik, General Manager, IR Pinaki Sengupta, Senior Manager, WCM and ISO Bikash Chakraborty, Assistant Secretary, Jayashree Textiles and Industries Mazdoor Union (AITUC) Dilip Das, CITU Madhava Upadhyay, IFTU (Naxalite sympathies) United Bank of India R. K. Mohanty, GM, Resources, Retail Banking etc., head office, Kolkata Manas Dhar, DGM, HR, head office Debashish Dasgupta, AGM, Training, head office Kironmoy Mitra, Chief Manager, Discipline and IR, head office Suprito Sarkar, General Secretary, UBI Officers’ Association, head office Soumitra Talapatra, General Secretary, UBI Officers’ Association, head office 69