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Raising the collective voice of unorganised sector workers and deliberating on the strategy to build a national movement for unorganised workers, the annual National Conference of the Working People’s Charter (WPC), was held at the Montfort…
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The Covid-19 pandemic had a brutal impact on the lives of domestic workers who have lost more jobs than any other profession despite a 2011 convention of employment protection, the International Labour Organisation has reported. Released…
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The Covid-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions in migration flows, international supply chains, and global economies and has led to 81 million workers in Asia-Pacific region losing their jobs in 2020. This has led to a significant…
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The Book, “Essays on COVID-19, Labour Market Reforms and the World of Work in India” provides a critical analysis of the impact of the policies, laws, government regulations, issues concerning workers, especially the migrant and informal…
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Labour rights that we know today had been fought and achieved through the sweat and blood of workers over the centuries. With their struggle the situation changed from having a slave – master relationship to being an industrial worker and…
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Migrant workers are no strangers to injustice. They were vulnerable in the pre-COVID world, but the pandemic has exacerbated their vulnerabilities to the extent that if no remedial mechanisms are adopted now, grave and incorrigible wrongs…
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The difficulties prompted by employer-tied visas are fairly sufficient to invite a proper dialogue on the issue. An international panel of scholars and practitioners recently looked into the challenges and alternatives to employer-tied…
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COVID-19 knows no boundaries. More than 100 countries across the world have reported cases of the virus. Already fleeing from war, violence, and emergency situations, over 70 million refugees and displaced people around the world are the…
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In the wake of severe injustices meted out to migrant workers, the casualties of COVID-19, some civil society organisations (CSOs) along with trade union federations collectively launched a campaign on 1 June 2020 necessitating a…
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COVID-19 pandemic has amplified the challenges to the youth with regard to their employment opportunities. The policy steps taken by the government have resulted in slowdown of the economic activities, which has led to mass unemployment,…
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