-Scroll.in The migrant exodus will undoubtedly hurt the economy. But that is no excuse for forced labour. The Indian government’s policies towards its vulnerable migrant Worker population were already a mess. This week, Karnataka made it worse. The Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled state decided to cancel trains that would allow Working-class people from other states to return to their homes five weeks after a national lockdown to combat Covid-19 left them stranded, often without...
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Gurugram Workers allege they were turned away on religious grounds -Ashok Kumar
-The Hindu Garments unit’s management denies charges as baseless, cites non-discriminatory hiring policy Gurugram: Several Muslim Workers at Richa & Co., a garments unit based in the Udyog Vihar Phase-III area of Gurugram, have alleged that they were turned away from the company’s gate on Thursday citing their religion and told to wait till “there were orders from the higher-ups”. The company, however, denied the allegations made by the Workers, saying it...
More »Expand rural job scheme: Activists -Achintya Ganguly
-The Telegraph 'The base of the MGNREGA beneficiaries needs to be broadened by including more deserving people as its beneficiaries' Ranchi: The rural job guarantee law can be a saviour for scores of Workers who have lost their jobs during the ongoing lockdown and are returning to their villages, a group of social Workers have underlined. Jharkhand NREGA Watch, a group of social Workers who describe it as a forum of concerned citizens,...
More »Adityanath Govt in UP to Suspend Key Labour Laws, Workers' Rights for Three Years -Somesh Jha
-Business Standard/ TheWire.in Under cover of the COVID-19 pandemic, the state government says exempting businesses from these laws will boost investment. But experts term the move an attack on fundamental rights. New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government has approved an ordinance exempting businesses from the purview of almost all labour laws for the next three years in a bid to provide a fillip to investments affected by the novel coronavirus in the...
More »Legislation a must to ensure Workers aren’t denied salaries during pandemic -Kabeer Shrivastava
-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...
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