Policy News
India
To boost market demand Centre to introduce interest free Rs.10,000 festival advance for government employees
Tamil Nadu state government signs 14 MoU in a bid to create 7,000 jobs
Government orders PSUs to build 50,000 homes for migrant workers
Central government raises MNREGA targets, aim is to provide 320 crore days of work
Labour bureau to conduct 3 surveys gauge unemployment situation
Uttar Pradesh government introduces 5% quota for ex-personnel of armed forces in group C jobs
To better adjust wages to inflation, government to revise base year of inflation for Industrial Workers
Legal News
Finland: Labour Council holds food delivery workers employees, not independent contractors
Spain: Amazon ordered to provide work contracts to over 4,000 employees
Workers’ Rights
India: Healthcare workers in capital city strike over unpaid wages
Argentina: Oilseed workers go on strike at key ports, demand better wages and working conditions
India: Over 15lakh Sugarcane workers strike work, demand wage revision
Norway: Oil workers’ strike yields pay raise and a long term settlement
Albania: Women oil workers continue hunger strike against non-payment of wages for over 12 months
India: Metal workers hold protest rally over non-payment of bonus and recognition of union rights
Greece: Public sector workers strike work for 24-hours, demand better salaries for health and education workers
Cambodia: Company producing for major sports brands fires worker activists to break the union
India: Migrant workers afraid to return to work as police cases for ‘rioting’ hang over their heads
Precarious Workers
India: Covid-19 prompts enormous rise in demand for cheap child labour
UK: Jobless rate hits 4.5% as work-protection plan nears end
India: Only 7.8% of industrial units in Uttarakhand state paid workers during Covid-19 lockdown
Garment workers have been robbed of £27m in wages since July
India: Domestic workers face Covid test, interviews as they return to work
Online content producers of the world need to unite to change the face of internet as we know it
India: Fixed Term Employment and the future of workers
USA: Rights based organization start probe after Norwegian funders withdraw from Indian factory over labour rights violations
Studies and Opinions
Those lucrative tax breaks for ‘job creation’ aren’t working
Measuring employees' work raises productivity for simple tasks, but slows down more complex ones
New labour codes in India will force workers into a more precarious existence
The four-day work week model gaining ground amid the pandemic
Can the absence of data justify the absence of policy?
Indian labour codes: Labour’s Loss
Pandemic has led to high level of stress, less employee engagement
