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Ignore unorganised sector, do not reflect present day problems, feel CTUs

Demands clear-cut criteria for recognising CTUs, membership verification through secret ballot

The draft rules are in favour of employers and deprives workers’collective bargaining ability

PUDR Demands Withdrawal of Draft Rules of Code on Industrial Relations The civil rights group said that invitations for ‘objections and suggestions to the notified Draft Rules of the IR Code constituted a "sham exercise" as several affected workers and trade unions across the country would be unable to respond. A student climbs a scaffolding at an outdoor classroom at the Larsen & Toubro (L&T) construction skills training institute in Panvel, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra Nove...

Labour Ministry to collect Aadhaar details of informal workers for social security schemes Updated: Updated: No one will be denied benefits for want of Aadhaar, say Labour Secretary Share Article No one will be denied benefits for want of Aadhaar, say Labour Secretary The Ministry of Labour and Employment will soon start collecting the Aadhaar details of workers in the unorganised sector for implementation of future social security schemes, though no one will be denied benefits for the lack of...

The AITUC demanded the central government convene the long overdue Indian Labour Conference immediately and discuss threadbare the necessity of the proposed labour law changes with the trade unions and employers.

Gig workers are on Covid frontline, they need legal rights and security May 1, 2021, 10:40 PM IST Alok Prasanna Kumar is Senior Resident Fellow at Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy. The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has once again forced state governments to impose lockdowns across India’s major cities. People are working from home again, and shops and restaurants are shutting down to counter the seemingly unstoppable rise in Covid infections and d...

May Day 2021: What Has (Not) Changed Since the Pandemic Ravaged Livelihoods of Workers Despite the government passing several laws, hurting the hard-earned labour rights over centuries, workers are staring at an uncertain phase during which neither old labour laws nor the new codes are effectively relevant. A migrant worker runs behind a truck as others try to board it to return to their villages after India ordered a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease, in ...

  Raju Vernekar As we are observing International Workers Day on First May, the labour scenario appears grim with loss of jobs, closure of industrial

For migrants, hunger deadlier than Covid Labour economists have highlighted how the loss of work and the absence of govt support are forcing people to leave their workplaces Aslam Ansari has had no work for the past four days. The migrant worker wants to go back home not for fear of catching Covid but to escape starvation. The tailor and his family of six live in a one-room dwelling close to Kalwa po...