States will have to seek permission to employ workers from Uttar Pradesh, says Adityanath

The chief minister also announced a migration commission to ensure employment for workers within Uttar Pradesh.

Scroll Staff

· May 25, 2020 · 12:35 pm

How labour conditions at construction sites are leading to higher rates of child malnutrition

Half of the migrant children surveyed at construction sites in Ahmedabad were underweight.

Divya Ravindranath

· Sep 27, 2019 · 09:00 am

Why migrant-dominated UAE’s exclusionary nationalisation model is unsustainable

The UAE economy relies on inequality and migrant workers, 90% of the population, who come from elsewhere in Asia.

Riaz Hassan

· Apr 27, 2018 · 09:30 pm

Using apps and credit cards, the Odisha government is trying to save migrants from bonded labour

Drought and dire poverty force villagers to take loans from labour agents, which they have to pay back by spending months working at brick kilns.

Anuradha Nagaraj, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· Nov 27, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Loss of jobs, not viral videos: Why migrant workers are leaving Kerala

Demonetisation and GST have shrunk the state’s job market.

TA Ameerudheen

· Oct 14, 2017 · 09:00 am

Watch: An animated video that follows the journey (and the misery) of a migrant worker in West Asia

The two-year-old video has gone viral because of reports about thousands of Indian being laid off and left stranded in the Gulf.

Scroll Staff

· Aug 01, 2016 · 01:00 pm

The plight of Indian labourers in UAE is almost literally the last thing New Delhi worries about

Lengthy joint statement covers everything, including Yoga Day, before turning its attention to labour welfare.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Aug 18, 2015 · 09:00 am

No ticket, will travel: Andhra migrants search for work in Kerala

There is no work under MNREGA in Andhra villages, and daily wages in Kerala are at least three times higher.

Rahul M

· Aug 10, 2015 · 02:30 pm

China's migrant worker crisis and the children that are left behind

The suicides of five Chinese children left behind by their migrant worker parents could be an ominous sign of things to come.

Samantha Hoffman, The Conversation

· Jul 15, 2015 · 02:30 pm

Rare protest by South Asian labourers about unpaid wages prompts Dubai to mobilise riot police

Hundreds of Indians, Bangladeshis and Pakistanis took to the streets in the emirate.

Scroll Staff

· Mar 10, 2015 · 06:01 pm

Exploitation of labour in the Gulf begins right at home in India

Two new reports reveal that debt bondage and deceitful recruitment agencies in India are as guilty of exploiting vulnerable labour as employers in West Asia.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Jul 16, 2014 · 07:09 am

Under pressure, Qatar announces that it will change archaic laws for workers building World Cup facilities

Integrate Gulf workers into cities they are building, help them pay their recruitment debt, urges new report on Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.

Mridula Chari

· May 18, 2014 · 05:42 am