How India can strengthen its social security code to include the 422 million workers left behind

The draft Code on Social Security, currently being discussed in Parliament, seeks to merge nine existing legislations.

Santosh Mehrotra

· Jun 12, 2020 · 11:30 am

Is Uttar Pradesh’s decision to suspend 35 labour laws legal? Experts believe it could be challenged

The list of laws proposed to be suspended contains Centrals laws. Suspending them would require the President’s approval.

Sruthisagar Yamunan

· May 09, 2020 · 07:30 am

In the isolation of the Covid-19 era, how do peoples’ movements build solidarity to demand rights?

As the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan turned 30 with a virtual ‘mela’, there was agreement that the crisis will have to be faced with creative imagination.

Nikhil Dey

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Aruna Roy

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Shankar Singh

· May 04, 2020 · 07:30 am

Imagining a post-pandemic May Day: Will India finally treat workers with the dignity they deserve?

The Covid-19 lockdown has made it impossible to ignore the precarious plight of millions of informal sector workers, many of them migrants.

Pinaki Roy

· May 01, 2020 · 07:30 am

Municipal workers in India are protesting against GPS watches that link their ‘efficiency’ to wages

How the push for smart cities and a Swachh Bharat is leading to privacy rights violations.

Anuradha Nagaraj, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· Mar 20, 2020 · 08:30 pm

Voices from the labour strike: Why workers across India observed a ‘Bharat bandh’ on Wednesday

From poor and delayed wages to discrimination against contract workers, labourers have a litany of unaddressed complaints.

Aarefa Johari

· Jan 09, 2020 · 06:30 am

Indian states rarely give back anything to the internal migrants who help them flourish

With the exception of Kerala and a few others, states have few employment, education or welfare initiatives to integrate migrants.

Varun Aggarwal, Priyansha Singh and Rohini Mitra, IndiaSpend.com

· Aug 28, 2019 · 01:30 pm

In charts: What is a decent minimum wage in India – and how a new law could change it

The government has hinted at a floor-level wage that its own committee deems insufficient.

Nithya Subramanian

· Aug 17, 2019 · 09:15 am

In Tamil Nadu, factories are illegally giving women pills to keep them working through period pains

An investigation in the state’s garment industry found that female workers’ health is being endangered for profit margins.

Anuradha Nagaraj

· Jun 13, 2019 · 08:30 pm

How Mumbai’s sanitation workers fought the municipal corporation – and won

A trade union movement has used both legal strategies and confrontational methods to organise Dalit workers on contracts.

Sujatha Fernandes

· Mar 04, 2019 · 09:00 am

Two rallies and a ‘GR wapsi’: Why sanitation workers held protests in Delhi and Mumbai on Monday

From minimum wages to safer working conditions, sweepers, sewer cleaners and garbage collectors across India have similar demands from the government.

Vijayta Lalwani

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Aarefa Johari

· Feb 26, 2019 · 06:30 am

Indefinite strike by Bihar’s ASHA workers is another reminder that they are overworked, underpaid

The ASHA unions in Bihar are demanding government employee status and a minimum wage.

Kavita Krishnan

· Dec 21, 2018 · 02:30 pm