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Incident The Chief Executive Officer of Italy based company Graziano Transmissioni, which manufactures auto components, was allegedly killed by an agitating group of workers of the company who had been dismissed from their jobs on disciplinary grounds a couple of months ago. A meeting was being held between the management and the dismissed employs to sort out the matter but altercation broke out between both of the parties on some issue. Amid the heated arguments, a security guard opened fire following which a group of other 100 suspended workers,who were waiting outside the factory premises became violent. When the CEO came down to calm down the workers he was manhandled and bludgeoned to death by them.

Meeting Two months ago, company had dismissed almost 200 employees who had turned violent during their agitation while demanding the hike in their pay. Since then they were demanding reinstatement and had been invited by the management for talks to sort out the matter. But during the meeting management demanded their written apology as a pre-condition to reinstate them. This condition infuriated them and turned them violent.

Problems After the economic revolution in India, a lot has changed. But a very little change has happened in the financial and working condition of lower level workers. There are huge disparities in the wages of regular and temporary workers.  In unorganized sector workers are paid poorly. Lack of job security, poor working conditions and callousness of the management towards workers are the major reason of simmering anger among workers. Tough private investment has created lakhs of jobs but in small companies workers are paid poorly. In most of cases they are paid less than the daily wage limits set by the government. If workers agitate then they are fired from their jobs. Government of India has not made such rules that can deal with these problems. Noida incident is just an eye-opener. It is the time for all the private companies and the center government to apply a new approach to tackle such problems. Government must make some rules that will provide job security to the workers and will also address their wages related problems. On the other hand it is the responsibility of the management to deal with the workers with compassion other wise no body can prevent such kind of incident from happening.