-The Indian Express The slowdown has hit these Workers the hardest. Faced with the prospect of not being able to earn any money until the end of the month, most decided it was better to return to their homes. Mumbai, Pune: As shops and establishments prepared to shut down following a Maharashtra government order that all private businesses and companies must remain closed from Saturday until March 31, an exodus began in...

-Working Peoples’ Charter Secretariat, dated 21st March, 2020   An open letter has been issued by civil society and trade union activists to the Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman, who is also heading the COVID-19 Economic Response Task Force. In that letter, a charter of demands has been put before the government to provide immediate relief to the Working classes and the informal sector Workers in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak in...

-Hindustan Times Coronavirus in India: Adityanath had formed a high-level committee under the state finance minister Suresh Khanna, comprising agriculture and labour ministers, to decide the nature of the assistance to the labourers. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath said on Saturday lakhs of daily wage labourers and construction Workers will be given Rs 1000 as the state remained under lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus outbreak. The state government had announced...

-The Telegraph The large-scale unemployment the pandemic was set to cause would cost Workers between $860 billion and $3.4 trillion in income losses Several Workers’ organisations have demanded a special package to tide Workers over the income slump entailed by coronavirus-induced social distancing and economic slowdown, at a time the International Labour Organisation has predicted a loss of 25 million jobs globally. An initial assessment by the ILO said the impact could be...

-The Hindu Business Line INBI has said that emergency basic income should be completely unconditional Close on the heels of the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) announcing measures to protect incomes of vulnerable households through cash transfers and other fiscal measures, the Indian NetWork for Basic Income (INBI), an advocacy group Working in the area of basic income transfers, has asked the Central Government to consider an emergency basic...