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Pitting trade unions in an unequal footing against employers, too much discretion to executive, doing away with punitive measures against employers – the Labour Codes could give employers the license to practice forced labour.
Labour migration is not about simple spatial mobility but the transfer of labour power for accumulation in advanced capitalist countries.
‘Great Nicobar: Disaster in the Making’: The mega project on the island was cleared using incomplete, inaccurate data, grossly underestimating its environmental and biodiversity impact. Also: ‘Great Nicobar Project Will Result in Genocide of The Shompen: International Indigenous Rights Body Writes to UN’.
Even though existing wage related labour codes and the Code on Wages 2019 do not effectively incorporate the principle of ‘Equal Pay for Equal Work’, judicial precedents have enshrined the value. As the Maruti workers complete six months of agitation, it is promising to be a struggle with a formidable impact on the Indian labour regime.
Adani Enterprises Ltd, tasked with developing coal mines in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo Arand forest, is swallowing up land, trees and villagers’ rights in collusion with the State government, violating the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act (PESA), 1996 and the Fifth Schedule of the Indian Constitution.
More than 24,000 ‘instructors’—teachers on contract—are paid Rs 7,000 per month to teach classes one to eight in Uttar Pradesh, making up 4% of government school teachers. Many now moonlight as salesmen, tailors, rickshaw drivers and workers in a state with India’s fifth lowest literacy rate.
Formed with the backing of employees dismissed in 2012, the Maruti Suzuki Non-permanent Workers Sangh will seek job security and better pay.
By the end of the 1990s, both capital and a willing state had eviscerated the labour movement. The death blow will be dealt in the 2020s.
The 15th of June marked the beginning of an indefinite fast by Medha Patkar, for justice in the Narmada valley. The demands from this fast include rehabilitation of all the remaining project affected as per the laws, policies, and Supreme Court orders.
The last two decades have seen little increase in welfare spending. But the NDA government has created an image of being focused on welfare by renaming schemes, appropriating older ones, and starving some UPA schemes of funds.
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