“The number of permits issued by the Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) is 5,955,051 till last fiscal year. Among the 110 officially open destinations, Gulf Cooperation Council, or GCC, (64%) …
India: Trade unions to move ILO against dilution of labour laws by BJP-ruled states
The fight for workers’ rights is set to reach an international forum as central trade unions attached to various political parties have decided to lodge a joint complaint with the …
Mindless relaxation of labour laws will only hurt India’s lockdown-hit economy more
Governments and policymakers across the world are doling out stimulus packages and loosening their purse strings to restart economic activity stalled by the coronavirus pandemic. In India, the focus of …
Union Garment Workers Fear ‘An Opportunity to Get Rid of Us’
Myan Mode, a garment factory on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, produces men’s jackets, women’s blazers and coats for Western fashion companies like Mango and Zara. Since the start of …
Factory behind India gas leak operated illegally until 2019
The chemical factory that leaked gas into a coastal Indian city on Thursday morning, killing at least 12 people and putting hundreds in hospital, was operating illegally until at least the …
India: Adityanath Govt in UP to Suspend Key Labour Laws, Workers’ Rights for Three Years
New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government has approved an ordinance exempting businesses from the purview of almost all labour laws for the next three years in a bid to provide a …
Adityanath Govt in UP to Suspend Key Labour Laws, Workers’ Rights for Three Years
The Uttar Pradesh government has approved an ordinance exempting businesses from the purview of almost all labour laws for the next three years in a bid to provide a fillip …
‘They just don’t care’: Millions of garment workers facing destitution as Britain’s high street billionaires fail to honour contracts
In his factory in Chittagong, Bangladesh’s main port and trading hub, Mostafiz Uddin has a mountain stacked high of 100,000 pairs of jeans with nowhere to go. The piles of …
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Modi’s asked Indian firms to ‘be kind’ amid lockdown but many workers have not been paid their wages
“At least three petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court demanding that companies be given the freedom to fire or furlough employees. Mysore-based Hazira, 26, who goes by one …