-TheIndiaForum.in The Periodic Labour Force Survey for 2019-20 has thrown up some unusual and contradictory patterns in employment and unemployment. However, the trends in the labour market over three years of the PLFS from 2017-18 onwards are clear and cause for worry. The pandemic has had a disastrous impact on lives and livelihoods. The national lockdown of March–May 2020 will be remembered for its devastating neglect of migrant workers and the unprecedented,...
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The migrant workers who never went back -Aarefa Johari
-Scroll.in They wanted to work, even as the number of women in India’s workforce fell. But a national upheaval crushed Jharkhand women’s dreams of new lives in Tamil Nadu. Simran Oraon has no regrets about the day she ran away from her home in Jharkhand all the way to Tamil Nadu. It was mid-April 2019, a few days after she had finished a two-month tailoring course at a skills training institute in Gumla,...
More »Prof. Chinmay Tumbe of IIM Ahmedabad interviewed by Civil Society News
-Civil Society News, Gurugram THROUGHOUT the first and second waves of the coronavirus pandemic, the extent of the tragedy in India was mostly unknown. How many people had really died? Were they men or women? Information was anecdotal and speculative. This April, there were queues at crematoriums and burial grounds, but even as bodies piled up there were no reliable figures to go by. We now have some figures based on data-hunting...
More »Women Farmers Are Losing Jobs, Earnings, Savings Even As Agriculture Booms -Shreya Raman and Geeta Devi
-IndiaSpend.com The reverse migration sparked by the 2020 lockdown led to a drop in the demand for women farm workers who have few other job opportunities in villages Mumbai, Ayodhya, Mahoba: "A day's farm work pays about Rs 250 but women earn even less, sometimes around Rs 100. But now that those who work in the cities are back, women's daily earnings are almost down to Rs 50," said Kranti Azad, 27,...
More »Implementing social security code a priority, says Minister -Damini Nath
-The Hindu No timeline for rolling out 4 labour codes yet Implementing the Code on Social Security, 2020 and bringing the maximum number of workers under the ambit of social security schemes were the top priorities of the government, according to Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav. Mr. Yadav told The Hindu on Tuesday that the focus on expanding social security schemes would be discussed during the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation’s meeting on...
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