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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | How the Code on Wages ‘legalises’ bonded labour -Soumya Sivakumar

How the Code on Wages ‘legalises’ bonded labour -Soumya Sivakumar

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published Published on Dec 22, 2021   modified Modified on Dec 22, 2021

-The Hindu

It allows employers to extend unlimited advances to workers and charge an unspecified interest rate on such loans

Debt bondage is a form of slavery that exists when a worker is induced to accept advances on wages, of a size, or at a level of interest, such that the advance will never be repaid. One of India’s hastily-passed Labour Codes — the Code on Wages, 2019 — gives legal sanction to this horrifically repressive, inhuman practice, by allowing employers to extend limitless credit advances to their workers, and charge an unspecified (and hence, usurious) interest rate on them.

Despite previously existing legal protections, vulnerable agricultural, informal sector and migrant workers were already becoming trapped in a vicious cycle of mounting debt and dwindling income, stripping them, their families and future generations, of their most basic rights. It remains one of the most pernicious sources of control and bondage in India, and is incompatible with democracy.

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The Hindu, 22 December, 2021, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/how-the-code-on-wages-legalises-bonded-labour/article38007358.ece?homepage=true


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