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

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