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ESIC is a corporation and employment is counted as Government service, but it is not a central government service, though it follows all central government rules.Yes Govt. proposes to corporatize ESIC and appoint CEO in it. Ministry of Labour & Employment has circulated a draft of the Code on Social Security, 2019 and sought stakeholder and public comments till 25 October. At present ESIC works more like an autonomous body run by board of director, the Labour Minister is appointed as chairman of ESIC board and the Labour Secretary as the vice-chairman of ESIC in the absence of Minister of State for Labour.In a bid to corporatize social security agencies, the government in September 2019 released a draft code that seeks to revamp the structure of ESIC, which would get its CEO for the first time. The draft provides for change in the constitution of Employee State Insurance Corporation, to be a "body corporate".At present ESIC work more like autonomous body run by board under the administrative control of Ministry of Labour & Employment. It was created by an Act of Parliament.The draft code provides that the Centre would appoint chairman and vice chairman of the two bodies. Thus, the appointees could be other than the Labour Minister and Labour Secretary.The draft code also provides for appointment of CEO for the first time, who would be executive head of ESIC. At present, Director General runs ESIC. Now, its CEO can be appointed from Indian Administrative Service as well as other services after consultation with the Union Public Service Commission.The Code will subsume 8 Central Labour Acts namely Employees' Compensation Act, 1923; Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948, Employees‘Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952; Maternity Benefit Act, 1961; Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972; Cine Workers Welfare Fund Act, 1981; Building and Other Construction Workers Cess Act, 1996 and Unorganized Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008.The government is in the process of condensing 44 central Labour laws into four broad codes on wages, industrial relation, social security and occupational safety and health.So what Govt. is proposing to do is to corporatize the ESIC and not privatize it as is wrongly being construed. This would make it more efficient, and provide enhanced services to its customers.

They ARE getting it.There are several reasons why it isn’t being discussed more though.Lack of healthcare/unaffordable healthcare. They do not have the spare money to seek diagnosis & medical treatment or cannot afford to use their massively overpriced healthcare for diagnosis & treatment.Job insecurity. Many of these type of employers do not offer any safety net for employees who do get sick. Little to no paid time off or sick leave, I know several “essential jobs” that have told employees that if they call off for any reason (sprained ankle to a cold) they cannot return to work without a negative test of doctor confirmation it wasn’t Covid-19. But their sick-leave states after X number of days without a doctor’s note or FMLA they will be terminated. So they can’t afford to lose the job, use the doctor, or take time off.Lack of, poor quality or overpriced unaffordable health insurance. Despite the latest federal act to make testing for Covid-19 a 100% covered test, that is just for that specific test. Not anything but that test. If you have no or bad insurance, you are still looking at a HUGE bill to get diagnosedLocal guidelines to who can be tested. Depending on the area, there could be a shit ton of hoops to jump through to even get tested. If a person is displaying minor symptoms, but not severe enough to “qualify” for a test they won’t get the test regardless.Lack of available tests. Many areas are extremely limited on the tests they can get. My area of about 190,000 finally restocked with 150 tests last week. This is not uncommon across the US.They are having mild enough symptoms to still be able to show up to work, which they need to do so they can eat, pay rent, have health insurance (even shitty overpriced insurance).The media and the corporations running grocery stores do not want the general public to know how many of their employees are potentially contagious. It doesn’t make good news, may incite panics or damage sales/profits.Don’t equate a lack of news stories or “people tested/positive for” numbers. They are grossly inaccurate since there is so much more than just the proven positive tests out there to go by. A realization of how insecure these jobs are, these employees ability to support themselves or seek medical care, and the severe lack of tests are all factors too.

CONSERVATIVES / LOCK-DOWN PROTESTERS THIS IS FOR YOU:Internal documents from several large corporations (which I have been fortunate enough to see) show estimates to be 15-17% unemployment with lock-downs in place until restrictions ease safely. We are looking at early June for this.NOTE May 10, 2020 - 3 weeks after initially writing this. We are at 14.7% unemployment and increasing.I would like to mention that corporations dont really care about politics, they care about profit and tend to look at the situations objectively. They DO NOT want 25% of their employees to be sick.If we come out of lock-downs too early: We are looking at 30–35% unemployment if we open up without adequate testing. This figure will be due to forced shutdowns because of sick and dying within 60 days, coupled with the loss of 25% of essential businesses within 45 days. This includes the disruption of the food supply, communications, transportation - all due to massive numbers of infected and overwhelmed medical facilities. So basically we gain 1.5 months of economic boost before things get out of control and damage becomes irreversible.The way a reasonable governor or any reasonable person looks at it….A lock-down and some temporary job loss is preferable to the alternative. With the lock-down in place, economy is expected to open by June and full restart by August, if we open up too early, will take 5 years to restart if this gets out of control and we do not have adequate testing.The worst thing is that Trump instead of talking to people and making them understand that this is only temporary, and the alternative would be a nightmare, he does the exact fucking opposite. His goal here is to keep the economy going and at the same time keep tabs on the sick data to prevent people from panicking. He is trying to keep it going until election day, after that, all hell can break loose. He almost incites rebellion against the states so that people can kill themselves and others. Brainless propaganda.The whole rescue plan was very poorly thought out. Stupid and useless. They should have put a mandatory hold on credit card payments, mortgages, loans, etc. Period. Government should have taken over paying people’s salaries at 80% of the full salary, up to 100,000 USD per year. This is what they did in Germany. This would have been in place for 3 months and prevent this crazy unemployment. DO NOT believe Trump and his idiots. Their only goal is to serve themselves and sacrifice you in the process, the people getting exposed to COVID-19 and going to work.I know its hard with people losing their jobs but try to keep your head on your shoulders. The alternative to lock-downs without proper measures would be 10 times worse, and there would not be getting up from it.ON A SIDE NOTE: Why is this such a painful experience for US citizens? Why the high unemployment and suffering? Why is Sweden doing so much better? Why is Germany already talking about opening up?The unemployment - First and foremost, all European countries have extremely well set up social systems, designed to help businesses and people, not ultra rich corporations and individuals. You conservatives, you have no fucking clue whats what, here is some breaking news. I personally own 3 businesses, with a total of 535 people employed and haven't fired a single one.One of these is in Germany, one in Romania and one in Dallas, USA. In Germany and Romania, once this COVID 19 hit and it became immediately apparent the economic impact would be catastrophic,German and Romanian governments took over payroll of most firms at 80% of salaries, up to 75,000 Euro per year. This means, that as an employee, if you made $5000 Euro a month in salary you now make $4000 paid for by the German / Romanian governments. It was a very simple procedure for my businesses to follow. We filed an online document with the respective government entity and provided the names and ssn of the employees to be transferred. Within 72 hours, we received confirmation that as of April 1st, these employees would receive their salary from the state. PERIOD. No layoffs, no loan applications, no justifications provided, nothing.All mortgage and loan payments were FROZEN for 90 days or for however long the lock-downs last. This is valid for small businesses and individuals.ZERO health insurance losses. Because of the nationalized healthcare system, nobody loses their health insurance because some asshole boss decides to use this as an excuse to cut benefits. Your health insurance is never, ever lost. Even if you get sick, you dont have to worry about your healthcare, you will get the best available and in Germany its fucking great. Romania not so great but still, you get it.Sweden is not doing better than the US. Its death rate per million is 213 vs 156 in US (per WHO; 24 April).PROBLEM WITH US PAYCHECK Protection - the problem with is that it takes into account average payroll over the last 12 months. Which means that any business that grew in the last 6 months and hired people, will get shit all in help. I have 24 people which I hired in the US in the last 4 months. My company gets ZERO help to pay for these people, I finance their salaries myself as they cannot work and must stay home.The reason why the US is hit so hard from an economy standpoint is because of indiscriminate job loss.THE SECOND REASON WE CANNOT OPEN IS - TESTING. We have a very shitty per capita test ratio. We are like number 43. Why? Until we have enough tests to be able to quickly identify and remove people before they infect entire corporations, we cannot and will not open. Testing is probably the most essential aspect of opening up the economy. Testing is what makes us see the “enemy”, its our night vision in an otherwise pitch black dark battlefield. Without it, we will lose.SO TRUMP SUPPORTERS AND CONSERVATIVES - Trump, the GOP and the Senate basically fucked you and your jobs and your health insurance and your country. They tout this hardcore capitalism but only because it benefits them, not you. They dont want to pay your health insurance, they want to fire you at anytime as they just did, to take away your benefits and your lives as they just did.All of you out there stupidly protesting the lock-downs, your time would be much better used by protesting and demanding to this idiot president to GET 1 MILLION TESTS A DAY DONE! Its the only way you are EVER going to get your job back. Instead of blaming China, Obama, Hillary, Mickey Mouse and the Tooth Fairy for his absolutely horrendous response to this crisis.PEOPLE WHO PROTEST THE LOCK-DOWNS. - Why do you think Trump is encouraging you? You are the cannon fodder for Trump, for his re-election and for this virus. You are sacrificial lambs convinced by the shepherd to willingly go to the slaughter. He doesn't care that you place yourself in mortal danger and yet you praise him and chant his name for it. You are protesting the policies that keep you safe.UPDATED April 29, 2020: Government just ordered another 100,000 + body bags in anticipation of states easing lock-downs.With respect to protesting lock-downs on the basis of freedom : If you want to risk your own death, thats fine, but you have no right to infect and risk the lives of others. Period.Cheers.