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A collage of laws that leaves the worker out in the cold
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May 20, 2021 00:39 IST
The universalisation of social security remains an unfulfilled aspiration in the new code on social security
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The universalisation of social security remains an unfulfilled aspiration in the new code on social security
As COVID-19 destroys lives and livelihoods, an unprepared government has rendered low-paid, informal workers, who constitute 91% of the workforce, totally hapless, pushing them further into poverty. Imagine if these same informal workers had social security (including free basic curative care in public clinics and hospitals, the elderly had old age pensions, the dying had death/disability insurance or life insurance). Imagine also that they had at least a minimum income guarantee, which prevented them from falling into debt; debt is currently exploding among the poor as their incomes collapsed.
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Understanding proposed labour codes: Reform or cause for concern?
The labour ministry is formulating relevant rules and regulations to implement the four new labour codes.
The four labour codes enacted by the Parliament in 2020 are set to be implemented soon.
According to Labour and Employment Secretary Apurva Chandra, the labour ministry is formulating relevant rules and regulations to implement the four new labour codes in the next few weeks.
Once the rules are notified, the codes would come into effect.
The government introduced the codes with the aim to streamline and simplify the country s existing and overlapping labour laws. Since the subject of labour comes under the Concurrent List of the Constitution, there were hundreds of state and central labour laws.