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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Legislation a must to ensure workers aren’t denied salaries during pandemic -Kabeer Shrivastava

Legislation a must to ensure workers aren’t denied salaries during pandemic -Kabeer Shrivastava

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published Published on May 6, 2020   modified Modified on May 7, 2020

-The Telegraph

Morality forbids what the law doesn’t: For now, employers should follow this adage and pay due wages

It’s one of the Covid-19 lockdown’s most tragic side-effects: employers forced to suspend business operations, leaving them without the cashflow to pay their employees. And often, the workers not getting paid are those earning minimum wages that have no cash reserves to fall back on. These people who are getting hit the hardest are at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Our lawmakers should have come up with a bipartisan solution and enacted legislation to enforce it. Instead, some states have issued executive decrees ordering payment of “all wages”. Others have stayed silent or made moral appeals. No coherent national public policy has emerged, and this has allowed some employers to evade responsibility entirely.

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The Telegraph, 6 May, 2020, https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/coronavirus-legislation-a-must-to-ensure-workers-arent-denied-salaries-during-covid-19-pandemic/cid/1770613?ref=opinion_opinion-page


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