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

Ultra full-time days, varying incentive pay: India’s food delivery people want a better deal

A viral video has brought into focus their gruelling work conditions and confusing payment structures.

S Senthalir

· Dec 15, 2018 · 09:00 am

Plans to implant employees with microchips in the UK has workers and trade unions worried

Seemingly innocuous security chips could enable companies to monitor employees in more sinister ways.

Shainaz Firfiray, The Conversation

· Nov 30, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Welfare laws for construction workers may be failing them, a social audit in Delhi finds

A nexus of apathetic and allegedly corrupt labour officials, builders and trade unions leave workers struggling to get benefits they are legally entitled to.

Vijayta Lalwani

· Sep 29, 2018 · 07:30 am

‘Government not listening’: Farmers, workers rally in Delhi for loan waivers, labour reform, jobs

Many of those present had attended the Kisan Long March in March. They said they were protesting again as their earlier demands had not been met.

Vijayta Lalwani

· Sep 05, 2018 · 09:58 pm

In West Bengal’s closed tea gardens, private contractors are forcing locals to work at lower wages

Threat of natural calamities and trafficking are adding to their woes.

Gurvinder Singh

· Jul 23, 2018 · 01:30 pm

Jharkhand: Over 12,000 workers sign petition demanding increase in wages under NREGA, other rights

A press release issued on International Labour Day said there were ‘shocking irregularities’ in the implementation of the scheme.

Scroll Staff

· May 01, 2018 · 11:30 pm