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Medical, sales promotion staff to strike today
The stir is to draw attention to pricing and labour-related issues in the pharmaceutical sector
Our Bureau
Mumbai, April 23 Over one lakh medical representatives and sales promotion employees across the country are set to strike on Thursday to get the Central Government’s attention on pricing and labour-related issues in the pharmaceutical industry.
The reduction of the excise duty from 16 per cent to 8 per cent will not bring benefit to consumers if the Centre does not revert to the earlier system of levying excise duty on the production cost and not the MRP, said Mr K.B. Kadam with the Federation of Medical and Sales Representatives Associations of India (FMRAI). The FMRAI, the only MR and sales promotion employees union in the country, also seeks to draw attention to the loss of jobs resulting from companies shifting their manufacturing facilities to tax-free States, he said. Unfair trade and marketing practices in the pharmaceutical industry need to be curbed by better implementation of the prevailing laws, he said, indicating another concern in the industry.
About 15,000 sales promotion employees in Maharashtra, for whom there is the added concern of the State government trying to take them out of the ambit of the Maharashtra Recognition of Trade Unions and Prevention of Unfair Labour Practices Act (1971), will join the strike, he said.
The Act helps in the speedy redressal of labour and industrial relations-related issues, he added.
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