-The Indian Express While the NSO’s Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2017-18 had estimated female Labour Force participation rate for 15 years and above at 23.3 per cent, the comparative numbers of other countries highlight the labour market’s gender skew. Just one out of five persons — in the 15-30 years age bracket — entering the Labour Force is expected to be a female in the five years ending 2023, when...
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Female migrant workers and domestic employees need a security net -Rohini Mitra and Aarohi Damle
-TheWire.in The lack of a cohesive legislative framework stigmatises domestic workers and is a colossal disservice to those who rely on domestic labour for their livelihood. Shipra Mondal has been a migrant for almost her entire life. Having first moved villages after marriage, Mondal has since shifted around, within the state of West Bengal, numerous times and now lives in a slum in East Kolkata. Her husband works at a construction site,...
More »The jobs challenge -Santosh Mehrotra & J Parida
-The Indian Express A comprehensive employment policy combined with an industrial policy is necessary to address the crisis. A report in this paper (IE, November 1) on various employment estimates for 2017-18, based on the PLFS (periodic Labour Force survey) data, has received considerable attention. We have received several queries from policy makers regarding the differences in our employment estimates with studies by Laveesh Bhandari and Amaresh Dubey (BD), and Himanshu...
More »Floor-wage formula worries workers -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph Trade unions insist that there should only be a binding minimum wage instead of a dual wage rate The draft rules for the implementation of a new wage law have kept the criteria opaque for deciding the floor wage, binding across the country, prompting fear that it will allow the states to pay “distress wages” to workers. The trade unions are unhappy with the concept of a dual wage rate —...
More »Strengthening MGNREGA for reviving the economy -Surajit Das
-Newsclick.in Even if the wage rates under MGNREGA are doubled and if jobs are provided for at least 100 days in a year as per the law, the extra expenditure would not exceed 1% of GDP. The growth rate is slowing down in India neither because of lower productivity of the labourers or that of the land, nor because of shortage of labour or productive capacity, but because of the lack of...
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