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The Quiet Death of Labour Rights in India
3 months ago

The Quiet Death of Labour Rights in India

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 25, 2024 12:00 IST - 9 MINS READ The 1990s marked a watershed in the attitude of the Indian state towards labour, with the ushering in of “liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation” policies. According to the ILO, informal workers saw a 22.6 per cent fall in wages post-pandemic, even as formal sector employees had their salaries cut by …

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Senior Officer (IR) Vacancy At Gujarat Alkalies & Chemicals Limited
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Senior Officer (IR) Vacancy At Gujarat Alkalies & Chemicals Limited

Live Law  

Gujarat Alkalies & Chemicals Limited invites online application for the post of Senior Officer. Name of the Post: Senior Officer Essential Qualification and Experience • Candidate should have degree in MSW / MLW / MBA / MHRM / LLB Full time from government recognized university. • The candidate should have minimum 8 years of experience in Contract Labour Management: Support …

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Madras university contract staff yet to get June, July salaries
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Madras university contract staff yet to get June, July salaries

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: Over 150 contract workers employed at the University of Madras have not received their salaries for June and July. The issue is affecting workers across its four campuses in the city, and comes at a time when the university is grappling with a financial crisis as the state government has not given it funds. In their letter, the contract …

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Unreserved, Yet Inaccessible: How Labour Laws Exclude Millions
9 months ago

Unreserved, Yet Inaccessible: How Labour Laws Exclude Millions

News 18  

I was associated with an academic institute that has multiple centres in different parts of India. But this closure underscores a broader point: West Bengal’s labour laws and overall environment have been deterrents to investing in West Bengal. After all, their combined membership hovers around 25 million, a stark contrast to India’s total labour force of approximately 480 million. While …

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Unreserved, yet inaccessible: How labour laws protect the interest of a few but exclude many others
9 months ago

Unreserved, yet inaccessible: How labour laws protect the interest of a few but exclude many others

Firstpost  

ILO says there are 12 central trade unions in India. They may claim to protect the broader interests of labour, but their actions often suggest a focus on their own members — a crucial distinction I was associated with an academic institute that has multiple centres in different parts of India. While trade unions undoubtedly play a vital role in …

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Nirma University: Online Training Programme On "Legal Aspects Of Handling Contract Labour With Directives Of The Supreme Court” [April 8th -9th]
1 year ago

Nirma University: Online Training Programme On "Legal Aspects Of Handling Contract Labour With Directives Of The Supreme Court” [April 8th -9th]

Live Law  

Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad is organizing an Online Training Programme on "Legal Aspects of Handling Contract Labour with Directives of the Supreme Court” in Online Mode from April 8th to 9th. Ranked First in the West Zone ranking and 24th in the overall ranking in the 'Top Law School' category by the Business World, 2023 Ranked Twenty First …

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Deprived Workers Of Their Dues: Karnataka High Court Directs Mysore Electrical To Reinstate Employees Unilaterally Shifted To Contractual Engagement
2 years ago

Deprived Workers Of Their Dues: Karnataka High Court Directs Mysore Electrical To Reinstate Employees Unilaterally Shifted To Contractual Engagement

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court has held that Mysore Electrical Industries Limited, a State Government Undertaking, which is not registered under Section 7 of the Contract Labour Abolition Act shifted the services of its workmen to private agencies without their consent, declaring their employment as contract labour, only for the purpose of depriving the workers their due amounts. It is therefore …

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Service Tax - To Determine If Service Is For Job Work Eligible For Tax Exemption, Agreement Has To Be Read As Composite Whole : Supreme Court
3 years, 1 month ago

Service Tax - To Determine If Service Is For Job Work Eligible For Tax Exemption, Agreement Has To Be Read As Composite Whole : Supreme Court

Live Law  

On Friday, the Supreme Court held that for the purpose of granting tax exemption based on the nature of agreements, the said agreements ought to be read as a composite whole. In the present matter, in order to decide whether the agreement entered into between the parties was a job work agreement and fit for granting benefit of service tax …

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Kellogg workers approve labour contract, ending 11-week strike
3 years, 3 months ago

Kellogg workers approve labour contract, ending 11-week strike

Al Jazeera  

Workers at the cereal plants voted for a contract that offers better terms for temp employees and wage increases, Kellogg said on Tuesday. Workers at Kellogg Co’s United States breakfast cereal plants voted in favour of a new contract that offers better terms for transitional employees and across-the-board wage increases, ending a weeks-long strike, the company said on Tuesday. The …

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Harvard Graduate Students Union has successfully added caste as a protected category in their contract
3 years, 3 months ago

Harvard Graduate Students Union has successfully added caste as a protected category in their contract

The Hindu  

In 2010, a senior Indian bureaucrat was quoted in the news as saying, “How can anyone seriously suggest that India’s fight against caste based discrimination will be helped by international attention on the issue?” The comment was meant to oppose Dalit activists’ demand for caste discrimination to be officially recognised by the United Nations. The most recent win on this …

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Portuguese National Moves Kerala High Court Questioning Engagement Of Foreign Pilots On Contract Labour
3 years, 8 months ago

Portuguese National Moves Kerala High Court Questioning Engagement Of Foreign Pilots On Contract Labour

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court recently sought response from the Centre, Indigo Airlines, Directorate General of Civil Aviation, and other concerned authorities on a petition filed by a former Indigo Airlines Captain, a Portuguese national, questioning practices related to engaging foreign pilots on contract. The Contract Labour Act prohibited employing contract labour to carry out the core activity of the principal …

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Labour reforms are not to blame for the unrest at Wistron’s plant
4 years, 3 months ago

Labour reforms are not to blame for the unrest at Wistron’s plant

Live Mint  

The unfortunate events of 12 December at the Wistron plant near Bengaluru have re-opened an old and ongoing debate about India’s labour laws, both in terms of reforms of those laws and the enforcement of existing rules. As reported, he complains that under the aegis of the newly-reformed labour laws, firms are increasing work hours and resorting more to contract …

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‘One Nation, One Ration Card’ scheme, mobile depots to ensure fair distribution: Chautala
4 years, 7 months ago

‘One Nation, One Ration Card’ scheme, mobile depots to ensure fair distribution: Chautala

Hindustan Times  

To provide ration to needy people and bolster the public distribution system of the state, the Haryana government may introduce mobile ration depots in densely populated areas, where conventional fair price shops often fail to meet the demand. Dushyant Chautala, deputy chief minister, Haryana, announced the proposed plan on Thursday, while speaking at a programme on the ‘one nation, one …

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Rise In Minimum Wages: Bombay HC Rules In Favour Of Cleaning Services Against Indian Railways [Read Judgment]
6 years, 10 months ago

Rise In Minimum Wages: Bombay HC Rules In Favour Of Cleaning Services Against Indian Railways [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

In a writ petition filed by A2Z Cleaning Services seeking a revision in reimbursement given by the Indian Railways with regard to cleaning and housekeeping services provided by them, the Bombay High Court has ruled in favour of the petitioners.A bench of Justice BR Gavai and Justice Bharati Dangre directed the respondents i.e., Union of India through Ministry of Railways …

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Haryana gets Contract Labour Advisory Board
7 years, 2 months ago

Haryana gets Contract Labour Advisory Board

The Hindu  

More than 14 years after the last Contract Labour Advisory Board, which was constituted in Haryana in 2000, completed its tenure in 2003, the government has finally announced formation of a tripartite CLAB in the State. Writ petition A writ petition was filed by the Garment and Allied Workers’ Union in the Punjab and Haryana High Court four years ago …

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Labour Ministry plans Rs.10,000 minimum monthly wage for contract workers
8 years, 11 months ago

Labour Ministry plans Rs.10,000 minimum monthly wage for contract workers

The Hindu  

The Labour Ministry has proposed a minimum monthly income of Rs.10,000 for contract workers, evoking strong reactions from the industry. As per the Contract Labour Central Rules, 1971, the wages of the contract labour shall be according to the minimum wage prescribed under Minimum Wages Act, 1948 and it should be at par with the regular workers in cases where …

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Labour’s love lost
9 years, 2 months ago

Labour’s love lost

The Hindu  

At a public event during his recent visit to India, French economist Thomas Piketty drew attention to the “hypocrisy” of the Indian elite in the way it wanted to pursue capitalist development — obsessed with growth, but indifferent to welfare. And yet, the Indian state has either stood by or actively colluded while employers tried every tactic, including illegal termination, …

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NREGA needs flexibility, objectives not met in states: Ramesh
11 years, 3 months ago

NREGA needs flexibility, objectives not met in states: Ramesh

The Hindu  

December 15, 2013 08:41 pm | Updated December 04, 2021 11:15 pm IST - New Delhi Batting for bringing flexibility in UPA’s flagship NREGA, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said the scheme has failed to achieve the three objectives of wage employment, creating community assets and empowering gram panchayats at the same time in any state. Giving examples of …

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Food Security Bill: What PM, other jholawalas can learn from Indira Gandhi
11 years, 10 months ago

Food Security Bill: What PM, other jholawalas can learn from Indira Gandhi

Firstpost  

The food bill envisages to distribute highly subsidised food grain to almost two-thirds of India’s population of 1.2 billion and in its current form is a sheer recipe towards financial disaster and consequently very high inflation. As a report titled titled National Food Security Bill: Challenges and Options authored by Ashok Gulati, Jyoti Gujral and T.Nandakumar belonging to the Commission …

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United and defiant: Unions ready to take on Maruti
12 years, 7 months ago

United and defiant: Unions ready to take on Maruti

Firstpost  

While Maruti has played a pioneering role in development of the Gurgoan-Manesar industrial belt, the spate of labour problems seems to have eroded the iconic status that Maruti workers. The unions in Gurgaon’s industrial belt look set to challenge what they say is a blatantly unjust reaction by Maruti Suzuki to last month’s violence at their plant in Manesar. Far …

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Vote on labour contract law put off
18 years, 3 months ago

Vote on labour contract law put off

China Daily  

By Zhu Zhe Updated: 2006-12-27 06:50 The country's top legislature yesterday reviewed the second draft of the controversial labour contract law but decided not to vote on it. The eight-chapter draft that details the establishment, revocation, revision, and termination of labour contracts will be the first such law of its kind if passed by the Standing Committee of the National …

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