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Labour to crack down on deepfakes and sharing of illicit intimate images
4 days, 8 hours ago

Labour to crack down on deepfakes and sharing of illicit intimate images

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Those who take intimate images of other people without their consent, or who install equipment …

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Senior Labour figures voice concern over assisted dying bill, warning proposals will not have long enough to be fully debated before vote
2 months ago

Senior Labour figures voice concern over assisted dying bill, warning proposals will not have long enough to be fully debated before vote

Daily Mail  

Growing numbers of senior Labour MPs are concerned about whether to vote in favour of legalising assisted dying. Darren Jones, Rachel Reeves's deputy at the Treasury, became the latest senior minister to say he would vote against the legislation – adding to an increasing number of influential voices expressing their worries. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury joins other notable …

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Fill Vacancies In Central Govt Industrial Tribunals By August 31 : Supreme Court To Union
1 year, 5 months ago

Fill Vacancies In Central Govt Industrial Tribunals By August 31 : Supreme Court To Union

Live Law  

The Supreme Court directed the Union Government to complete the process of appointing judicial officers to the vacant seats of the Central Government Industrial Tribunals before August 31, 2023. The petitioner in the matter, Labour Law Association had submitted that as many as nine out of twenty two benches of the Central Government Industrial Tribunals were vacant and three more …

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A new deal to protect India’s gig workers?
1 year, 9 months ago

A new deal to protect India’s gig workers?

Hindustan Times  

Last month, as part of its budget for 2023-24, Rajasthan announced that the state will enact a law for the protection of gig workers, establish a welfare board, and devote ₹200 crore for this purpose. It will be administered by a welfare board, which — if labour demands are fulfilled — will have representatives of the government, platform companies and …

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3rd IDIA Delhi Chapter Article Writing Competition 2023.
1 year, 9 months ago

3rd IDIA Delhi Chapter Article Writing Competition 2023.

Live Law  

Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access : Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access, is a non-profit organisation that aims to empower underprivileged and marginalised children by giving them access to quality legal education, in a bid to enhance the diversity in law schools across India. Conceptualised in 2010 as the brainchild of late Prof. Shamnad Basheer, IDIA has since expanded to over …

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Supreme Court Annual Digest 2022- Labour Law
1 year, 11 months ago

Supreme Court Annual Digest 2022- Labour Law

Live Law  

Bonded Labour System Act, 1976; Sections 16-17- For attracting the provision of Section 16 of the Act, the prosecution must establish that an accused has forced and compelled the victim to render bonded labour. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. v. President, Oil Field Employees Association, 2022 LiveLaw 176 : 2022 SCALE 861 Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 - Section 33C …

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Salary, Final Settlement, Leave Encashment Rules to Change Under New Labour Law; See How
2 years, 6 months ago

Salary, Final Settlement, Leave Encashment Rules to Change Under New Labour Law; See How

News 18  

The Centre is likely to soon implement four new labour codes under the amended labour law, aimed at improving an employee’s well-being at work. The central government has been working on designing the four new labour codes, under which there will be significant changes in terms of an employee’s salary, leave encashment, annual leaves, and final settlement if an employee …

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Platform workers need justice, not charity
3 years, 4 months ago

Platform workers need justice, not charity

Hindustan Times  

The narrative of the platform economy has been dominated by the platforms themselves. Platforms deprive delivery workers of protection under labour law by classifying them as “independent contractors” or as “partners”. By engaging in the pretence that the relationship between a platform and a delivery worker is between two equally positioned professionals — such as, for example, a freelance designer …

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The shaky foundation of the labour law reforms
3 years, 5 months ago

The shaky foundation of the labour law reforms

The Hindu  

The National Democratic Alliance government enacted the Code on Wages in August 2019 and the other three Codes, viz., the Industrial Relations Code, the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code and Code on Social Security in September 2020. In the meanwhile, the Supreme Court of India has exerted pressure on both the central and the State governments to implement …

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Frayed labour laws in Surat's power looms
3 years, 5 months ago

Frayed labour laws in Surat's power looms

The Hindu  

Surendra is in his mid forties. On the basis of a careful analysis of the existing structure of labour regulation formulated to protect migrant workers, who are overrepresented in the power-loom industry of Surat, we argue that a combination of informal structures such as exclusion from labour laws, weak enforcement, neglect by policymakers and unscrupulous industrial practices has imperilled the …

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Labour law changes: Are Qatar’s migrant workers better off?
3 years, 9 months ago

Labour law changes: Are Qatar’s migrant workers better off?

Al Jazeera  

Six months after Qatar abolished the need for an NOC to switch jobs, migrant workers tell Al Jazeera of their continued struggle. Labour law changes Under Qatar’s Kafala system, migrant workers previously needed to obtain their employer’s permission – in the form of a no-objection certificate – before changing jobs, a law that rights activists said tied their presence in …

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Gurugram's Loss Noida's Gain? Haryana's New Quota Law Could Be an Advantage for This UP City
3 years, 10 months ago

Gurugram's Loss Noida's Gain? Haryana's New Quota Law Could Be an Advantage for This UP City

News 18  

The BJP-led Haryana government’s decision to reserve 75% jobs in the private sector for locals has worried companies in the State. He added, “The competing destinations of Noida, Greater Noida and Rajasthan will benefit as the skilled labour will move out and companies will be pressed to follow them outside Haryana.” Desai backed Prof. Mishra. Industry body CII too issued …

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Peru mine workers block highway as labour protests spread
4 years, 1 month ago

Peru mine workers block highway as labour protests spread

Al Jazeera  

One protester has died as farmworkers cut off transit on the main highway to the capital Lima, stranding food trucks. Mineworkers in Peru on Friday joined a growing group of farmworkers in blocking major highways throughout the country, ratcheting up pressure on newly appointed interim President Francisco Sagasti. The mineworkers joined continuing labour protests launched this week by Peruvian farmworkers, …

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Gig economy under the microscope as former Deliveroo driver takes company to Fair Work Commission for unfair dismissal
4 years, 2 months ago

Gig economy under the microscope as former Deliveroo driver takes company to Fair Work Commission for unfair dismissal

ABC  

The debate over whether food delivery drivers deserve employee rights has once again entered the courts with a former Deliveroo driver taking the company to the Fair Work Commission to argue he was unfairly dismissed. "The companies say these people aren't working for us, we are providing tech support to a business the contractors are running," says Andrew Stewart, a …

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Brexit: Labour 'unpatriotic' for opposing breach of international law, government claims
4 years, 3 months ago

Brexit: Labour 'unpatriotic' for opposing breach of international law, government claims

The Independent  

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In an angry …

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Devise a new labour law regime for gig economy workers
4 years, 3 months ago

Devise a new labour law regime for gig economy workers

Hindustan Times  

The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed multiple fault-lines in India’s economy and labour market. The employee/contractor binary, however, is based upon an outdated vision of work, where the factory or the shop floor was the predominant site of “work” The root of the problem lies in an outdated labour law regime. In the case of Uber, for example, the app plays …

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#DakshaMasterclass: Changing Labour Regulations In India [26th Aug]
4 years, 4 months ago

#DakshaMasterclass: Changing Labour Regulations In India [26th Aug]

Live Law  

Daksha Fellowship is organizing a #DakshaMasterclass on labour regulations. Date: Wednesday, 26 August 2020 Time: 6:30 PM IST Theme: Changing contours of Labour regulation in India Labour reforms have been in the policy pipeline in India during the last few years. It throws open pertinent questions for existing labour regulations to grapple with. Do we have to change the existing …

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A blueprint to protect labour rights without constraining capital | Opinion
4 years, 6 months ago

A blueprint to protect labour rights without constraining capital | Opinion

Hindustan Times  

Two defining moments in India’s long and harsh lockdown bring out the sharp contradictions in labour-capital relations in the economy. Every day of the lockdown brought with it images of workers, left with no incomes and social security, making their way home, hungry and tired, laying bare the realities of India’s fragile labour market. The growth-versus-labour rights binary is false …

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Indian states' decision to suspend labour law amid COVID-19 crisis is delirious policy-making not backed by empirical analysis
4 years, 7 months ago

Indian states' decision to suspend labour law amid COVID-19 crisis is delirious policy-making not backed by empirical analysis

Firstpost  

The utter disregard for the value of human life could not be starker than in using the COVID-19 crisis as the foreground for the whittling down of labour rights. The proposed moves are the most short-sighted manifestation of the hasty assumptions that continue to undergird the case for neoliberal reform of India’s labour law framework. Over the past weeks, several …

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Suspension of labour laws by UP, MP, Gujarat crushing workers’ rights, says Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh national general secy Virjesh Upadhyay
4 years, 7 months ago

Suspension of labour laws by UP, MP, Gujarat crushing workers’ rights, says Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh national general secy Virjesh Upadhyay

Firstpost  

If the state governments really wanted to bring reforms, first they should have focussed on the poor labourers, says BMS national general secretary Virjesh Upadhyay. Amid COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, when the labour force across the country is at the receiving end due to suspension of work and no wages, three BJP-ruled states – Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat …

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1st Online National Labour Law Quiz, 2020 At NLIU
4 years, 8 months ago

1st Online National Labour Law Quiz, 2020 At NLIU

Live Law  

Centre for Labour Laws, National Law Institute University, Bhopal is organizing an Online Quiz Competition on the subject of Labour Law on the occasion of International Labour Day, on the 1st of May 2020 at 5.00 pm. Centre for Labour Laws, NLIU, Bhopal The Centre for Labour Laws at the National Law Institute University, Bhopal aims to generate scholarship and …

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Britain: Lawmakers prepare court action to enforce Brexit delay
5 years, 4 months ago

Britain: Lawmakers prepare court action to enforce Brexit delay

India Today  

British lawmakers are preparing legal action in case Prime Minister Boris Johnson tries to defy legislation compelling him to seek a further delay to Brexit, opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Saturday. Boris Johnson, a leader of the campaign to leave the EU during the 2016 Brexit referendum, took office in July after Conservative party predecessor Theresa May …

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Centre, states need to pursue labour law reforms: SBI report
5 years, 6 months ago

Centre, states need to pursue labour law reforms: SBI report

India TV News  

The Centre and state governments need to pursue labour law reforms as these are necessary for improving investment and generating employment, said SBI in its research report 'Ecowrap' Thursday. Observing that initiatives taken towards labour law reforms till date are "miniscule", the report said that in an economy like India, which has a large workforce, it is important to improve …

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They worked in torrid heat for Exxon, Shell and Walmart for free
5 years, 8 months ago

They worked in torrid heat for Exxon, Shell and Walmart for free

Al Jazeera  

‘I can’t fathom this being legitimate,’ former US labour department investigator says of a drug rehab’s work programme. “It’s like the closest thing to slavery,” said Logan Tullier, a former Cenikor participant who worked 10 hours a day at oil refineries, laying steel rebar in 46 degrees Celsius heat. “It was just a money racket,” said former Cenikor patient Alester …

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