Workers Hit Hard By Ashok Leyland's Shutdown ndtv.com

Truck maker Ashok Leyland's sudden brakes on its production by shutting down its plants from 5 to 18 days this month has hit the contract workers hard.
Murali, a contract worker at its Ennore plant outside Chennai, which is shut for sixteen working is shattered. For September he would get just around Rs. 4,000 salary against his regular salary of Rs. 13,000. This amount would be enough just for his house rent. With a ten month old baby and his young wife to take care, he has moved both of them to his in-laws place so her parents would take good care of his family. "Even with my full Rs. 13,000 salary I can't run my family. In this situation with just six or seven thousand I can't manage," Murali told NDTV.