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An issue of lives versus livelihoods Updated: Updated: May 04, 2021 23:31 IST That the situations faced by India’s migrants are not a matter of concern in policy making is quite apparent Share Article AAA That the situations faced by India’s migrants are not a matter of concern in policy making is quite apparent Strict to moderate lockdowns are being imposed again, this time in April 2021, terminating jobs in many an establishment employing large numbers of informal workers. Of those employed in the informal category, large numbers include migrants who face, like they did in March-Apr...

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 ...

Migrant worker Bibhuti Khatua has mostly been confined to his one-room dwelling in Kotla Mubarakpur here with his ailing wife since Saturday. After the weekend lockdown, the plumber in his mid-40s had on Monday reported for work at the construction site where he is employed. But the state government then announced a total lockdown from Tuesday morning till the next Monday morning. For the next five days, therefore, Khatua will be dipping into his meagre savings of Rs 4,000 to meet his daily needs and buy medicines for his wife. Returning to his village in Kendrapada, Odisha, will cost him his...

Labour ministry notifies draft rules under Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code SECTIONS Share Synopsis The ministry has invited suggestions on the draft Rules in the next 45 days following which the above Rules will be finalised. This would enable the government to put in place the required technical committee for smooth implementation of the OSH&WC Code. ET Bureau The labour ministry has notified draft rules pertaining to setting up of a technical committee under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code (OSH&WC Code), 2020. The committee is expected to ...