Don't Ban Multi Level Marketing just Regulate
Press conference held at 4 windsor place New Delhi
Regulate Multilevel Marketing And Protect Consumers and Employees
In joint statement issued by the Reception Committee Chairperson
Amarjeet Kaur,Vice-chairman Chidambaram N, General convener E C
Satheesan and MMEF(AITUC)
leaders P V Asokan and V Sreenivasan at a press conference in New Delhi
on Saturday August 4, 2012.
Chairperson Amarjeet Kaur said, their main demands of protest in form of the ‘March to
Parliament’ being organised by the Multilevel Marketing Employees Federation MMEF(AITUC)
is to enact a central legislation to regulate the multilevel marketing sector
and protect its employees as well as consumers.
She further added that In India the multilevel
marketing/direct selling sector is actively functioning since 1996, but not
under any regulation. Instead, each multinational net work and big business
house in India
are operating according to its wishes, aimed at making only huge profits.Also in India about 20
lakhs of youngsters are working in this sector and this is the only means of
their livelihood. Such operations are rampant in more than one hundred
countries. Even in our neighbouring country China, the multilevel marketing is
in operation with proper separate regulating laws. In certain countries, there
are sections, legally equipped officials and even ministers to look after and
regulate the sector.The noble aim of multilevel
marketing/direct selling is to provide directly without middlemen cheap and
better quality essential items to consumers identified through personal
contacts. A share of the profit is being distributed to the employees in the
sector as remuneration.
She said , several business organisations
engaged in multilevel marketing after cheating and misappropriating the hard
earned money of the consumers disappear all of a sudden throwing the employees
and consumers into wilderness. This is happening due to the lack of any
regulatory mechanism.Multilevel marketing is similar
to various other income-generating jobs. This really provides some relief in India where
unemployment is critical.The multilevel marketing
employees must be able to work in this sector with a healthier environment
ensuring both dignity and security. This can be achieved only through enacting
a proper legislation.
Welcming the media she said, we would also like to reveal to
the Press that attempts are being made by MNCs to instill fears into the minds
of the employees that the government may ban multilevel marketing/direct
selling setup itself. Vested interests in the bureaucracy and other government
machinery are trying their best in this regard.However, a seven-member committee
has been set up under the chairmanship of the present consumer affairs
secretary to study the problems, assess the sector and submit a report by
August 31, 2012.We demand that the committee and
the consumer affairs ministry should consult all the stakeholders, particularly
the employees and the MMEF(AITUC) before finalising the report.It is to focus on these demands
and seeking urgent steps by the central government towards framing a legal
setup that a trade union has taken birth in the multilevel marketing sector MMEF(AITUC)
for the first time in the world and is
holding the March to Parliament on August 7, 2012, starting at 11 a.m. from
Barakhamba Road signals to Parliament Street via Tolstoy Marg, Janpath and
Jantar Mandir.
MULTILVEL MARKETING EMPLOYEES
FEDERATION MMEF(AITUC)
Reception
Committee
AITUC Bhavan, 35-36, D.D.U
Marg, New Delhi-110 002 Tel: 011-23217320
Chairman: Amarjeet Kaur Mob: 09810144958,
General Convener: E C Satheesan Mob:09446520292
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