Labour Rights

Impact of COVID-19, Reforms and Poor Governance on Labour Rights

Impact of COVID-19, Reforms and Poor Governance on Labour RightsImpact of COVID-19, Reforms and Poor Governance on Labour Rights

The Book, “Essays on COVID-19, Labour Market Reforms and the World of Work in India” provides a critical analysis of… Read More

ASHA Workers and Their Unrecognised Service during the Pandemic

ASHA Workers and Their Unrecognised Service during the PandemicASHA Workers and Their Unrecognised Service during the Pandemic

ASHA, the acronym for Accredited Social Health Activists, is a cluster of village-level community health workers, who are primarily employed… Read More

Pandemic-Hit Gig Workers and Their Struggles

Pandemic-Hit Gig Workers and Their Struggles

The gig economy is characterised by two aspects – use and throw labour force and invisible employer. These two aspects… Read More

New Labour Codes: Derailing the Hard-earned Workers’ Rights

New Labour Codes: Derailing the Hard-earned Workers’ Rights

Labour rights that we know today had been fought and achieved through the sweat and blood of workers over the… Read More

Plantation Workers Amidst Pandemic: Unearthing Their Challenges

Plantation Workers Amidst Pandemic: Unearthing Their Challenges

Plantation sector and its workers have a story to itself since colonial times in the form of Brown-sahibs to huge… Read More

Employer-tied Visas: Posing Challenges to Human Rights

Employer-tied Visas: Posing Challenges to Human Rights

The difficulties prompted by employer-tied visas are fairly sufficient to invite a proper dialogue on the issue. An international panel… Read More