-Down to Earth Procurement at the doorstep, direct income support and reaching out to farmers can help in easing farming operations at this crucial time The extension of the nationwide lockdown to combat the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), though necessary, will lead to a further suspension of work and no Wages and means for families to support themselves. The activities in manufacturing and services, that provide non-essentials, may be suspended, though with serious...
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Across India, workers complain that employers used lockdown to defraud them of Wages they are owed -Rajiv Khandelwal
-Scroll.in It is imperative that this money is reclaimed and not treated as an unavoidable collateral loss in the fight against Covid-19. On March 25, my colleagues and I at the Aajeevika Bureau, which tries to address the economic and socio-legal problems of migrant workers in Gujarat and Rajasthan, woke up to dozens of messages of utter distress, both on our personal phones and on our toll-free Labour Line. Among the people who...
More »A blueprint to revive the economy -P Chidambaram & Praveen Chakravarty
-The Hindu A carefully crafted economic proposal for consideration of the Indian government to help our fellow citizens “We have no food, no home, no income. My children are starving,” cried Prachi to a TV anchor on April 14. Prachi, a migrant worker from Bihar, is one of the roughly 400 million workers in India who are dependent on daily Wages for their survival. She has lost her source of livelihood because...
More »Coronavirus: MGNREGA jobs crash to 1% of normal -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu With worksites closed, activists urge SC to ensure Wages for all those registered Employment under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has collapsed to just over 1% of the usual rate this month due to the COVID-19 lockdown. Activists petitioned the Supreme Court demanding that the government pay full Wages to all active job card holders during this time, following its own instructions issued to other employers. Please click...
More »Amid COVID-19 Effects, Executive Orders To Fast-Track Labour Codes -Sunil Prabhu
-NDTV Amid an expected global downturn of economy following the COVID-19 pandemic and the related lockdown, the outlook for India has been particularly gloomy. New Delhi: The coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown has pushed the government to take the ordinance route to formulate three of the four labour codes it is planning. The codes have already been introduced in parliament. One of them - the code on Wages, which clubs together the...
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