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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 deaths across the country. In this context, platform workers — who provide their services through a...
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 Ghaziabad, March 26, 2020. Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi Rights01/May/2021 This is the second May Day ...
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 police station in Thane, near Mumbai. On Thursday, the family from Dumri block in Giridih, Jharkhand, ...