Policy News
India: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation slashes workers’ perks and allowances by 50%
Jordan: Government prohibits gender based wage discrimination
India: Jharkhand state to launch job scheme for unskilled workers in Urban areas
Italy: Government launches amnesty program for undocumented Bangladeshi workers
India: Jammu and Kashmir approves Rs.25 Lakh ex-gratia for healthcare workers who die in COVID-19 duty
Belize: Government proposes Labour (Amendment) Bill 2020
India: Government allows withdrawal of 50% of three months average salary as unemployment benefit under ESIC
India: Gujarat state to hike wages of sugarcane workers by 10%
Legal News
India: Trade Unions urge the government to withdraw Environmental Impact Assessment Rules, 2020
USA: Bill banning collective bargaining by Police Unions gets shot down in Virginia state
Kenya: Labour court holds strike by medics illegal, orders them to return to work
USA: California court stays injunction mandating Uber and Lyft to classify drivers as workers
India: Karnataka High Court issues notice to government over amendments in Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act
Workers’ Rights
India: Frontline healthcare workers are face police action and legal case for demanding safety equipment, better wages
Colombia: Over 1,000 delivery workers strike work for better working conditions, wages
Jordan: Over 1,000 teachers arrested as government cracks down on teacher’s union
UK: Building the trade union movement amid the pandemic
USA: Postal workers struggle amid pandemic, urge public to help their struggle
Germany: Trade unions back four day work week to avert job cuts
Precarious Workers
India: Spike in child labour in the Garment industry as the lockdown eases
USA: 145 shuttle and paratransit bus drivers lose jobs after Amazon ends contracts abruptly
India: Less than one third migrant workers benefited from government schemes
USA: Changes in industrial inspection policy have led to spike in workplace accidents
India: Less than one third migrant workers benefited from government schemes during lockdown
India: Demand for MNREGA jobs continues as states fail to provide any other employment
USA: As work at construction sites begin after the lockdown so do immigrant worker deaths
Job Cuts
UK: Marks & Spencer to cut 7,000 jobs over three months
Australia: Qantas Airways to cut jobs after posting $1.9Bn in losses
USA: Boeing is planning job cuts over and above the announced 16,000 lay offs
Studies and Opinions
Gig economy workers explain how the pandemic has changed their jobs
Does Capitalism really empower women?
Migrant workers in India are ‘free’ to walk back home
What job losses in the formal sector tell us about the lockdown's impact on economy
Organising labour in an era of temporary and gig workers
Fashion brands responsible for creating inequalities across the supply chain
Does forced labour in China really concern global brands?
6.1 Million Indian youth may lose their job due to the pandemic
