-TheWire.in Amidst the pandemic, digital acceleration and related developments in the US and the UK, provisions in the Code address India's absence of a central framework to recognise and regulate trade unions. The roll-out of the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 and the draft Industrial Relations (Central) Recognition of Negotiating Union or Negotiating Council and Adjudication of Disputes of Trade Unions Rules, 2021 as part of India’s labour reforms initiative, is in the...
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What the Latest NSS Survey Tells us About the State of Farmers in India -Siraj Hussain and Seema Bathla
-TheWire.in The detailed socio-economic data set provides insight into a farmer’s investment behaviour, level of indebtedness and income earned from various activities. The recent release of the decennial NSS 77th round Situation Assessment of Agricultural Households (SAS) is a welcome development for agriculture and allied sectors. The detailed socio-economic data set provides insight into a farmer’s investment behaviour, level of indebtedness and income earned from various activities. An analysis of these and other...
More »The shaky foundation of the labour law reforms -KR Shyam Sundar
-The Hindu It could be a long wait before employers and workers enjoy the so-called benefits extended by the labour codes The National Democratic Alliance government enacted the Code on Wages in August 2019 and the other three Codes, viz., the Industrial Relations Code, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code and Code on Social Security (CSS) in September 2020. Later, it had framed the draft rules albeit incompletely under all...
More »Global Fashion Brands Caused Humanitarian Crisis in 6 Asian Countries During Pandemic, Says Report -Ditsa Bhattacharya
-Newsclick.in Nearly 93% of the Indian garment workers were pushed below the international poverty line of the World Bank in April and May, 2020 Garment workers lost a significant amount of wage during the pandemic in six Asian countries including India. Workers’ wages were at poverty levels even before the pandemic, and were pushed further below the International Poverty Line in their countries by the pandemic, according to a recent report titled...
More »Migrant workers bore the brunt of 2020 lockdown due their poor access to social security schemes & legal rights, depicts latest NHRC report
The rise in COVID-19 daily new cases and daily new deaths compelled many state governments to impose local level lockdowns during April-May 2021. As of 20th April, 2021, partial lockdowns were noticed in 10 states across the country and complete lockdown was imposed in Delhi. As of 8th May, 2021, nearly the entire country was under complete lockdown as a result of either partial lockdowns and night curfews or complete...
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