-The Indian Express Last week, a number of state governments made key changes in the application of labour laws. What are the labour laws in the country, and how can such changes impact firms, their workers, and the economy? As the economy struggles with the lockdown and thousands of firms and workers stare at an uncertain future, some state governments last week decided to make significant changes in the application of labour...
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Delhi’s Food Scheme for the Poor is Better on Paper than on the Ground -Suchitra
-TheWire.in As gaping holes emerge in the Delhi Corona Sahayata Yojana, daily wage earners remain unpaid, hungry and helpless. New Delhi: A month ago, on April 7, Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde asked public interest lawyer Prashant Bhushan: “If they are being provided meals, then why do they need money for meals?” Bhushan had represented a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed jointly by civil rights activists Harsh Mander and Anjali Bharadwaj to...
More »Centre Preps "Image Correction" Exercise To Blunt Criticism Over Migrants -Sanket Upadhyay
-NDTV The booklet containing what the centre has done for people, especially migrants, will be widely circulated, the source said, adding the massive publicity campaign will be the main thrust of the entire exercise. New Delhi: The centre will launch an "image correction" exercise to counter what is seen as not doing enough to help stranded and hungry migrant workers amid the lockdown necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic, sources have said. The centre...
More »The draft social security code: A case of unfulfilled aspiration -Kingshuk Sarkar
-Vikalp.ind.in Ministry of Labour & Employment, Govt. of India has amalgamated all the existing social security legislations into a Code. The proposed draft Code on Social Security is presently being referred to Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour for examination. This commentary highlights the salient features of the proposed code and discusses the areas of improvement and concerns. After considerable period of deliberations and consultations, the union government has circulated the draft...
More »Is Uttar Pradesh’s decision to suspend 35 labour laws legal? Experts believe it could be challenged -Sruthisagar Yamunan
-Scroll.in The list of laws proposed to be suspended contains Centrals laws. Suspending them would require the President’s approval. On May 6, the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet decided to suspend 35 of the 38 labour laws in the state for three years. It said that this would attract much-needed investment to an economy battered by Covid-19. Three laws have been exempted from the ordinance: the Building and Other Construction Workers Act, 1996; the Workmen...
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