After a meeting with senior cabinet ministers Pranab Mukherjee, Shivraj Patiland and A.K.Antony, Labor Minister Oscar Fernandez offered public apology today (24th Sept’08) for what he said to managements on the killing of CEO Lalit Choudhary, by violent workers demanding reinstatement of 11 of their dismissed colleagues.
Yesterday Fernandez told a news conference that the incident (killing of CEO) should ‘serve as a warning for the managements not to push workers too hard.’ While apologizing today he said, “I would like to put an end to this chapter by saying I am sorry. I had expressed my condolences to the (bereaved) family of the CEO and just put my point before media. I apologize if my statement has hurt any one’s feeling, ” Press Trust of India quoted him as saying.
The comments on CEO killing by Fernandez were least expected from a soft-mannered Oscar, who is very careful about choice of words before uttering. A leader from Karnataka, the home state of Fernandez, was however not surprised at the minister’s remark. “He was (Fernandez) was a clerk with life insurance Corporation of India and a trade union activist. He probably got carried away momentarily by the episode and his pro-labor instinct got better of him” said the leader and colleague of Fernandez as per report in ‘The Telegraph’ from Calcutta.
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