Policy News

India:

Karnataka Assembly passes Bill increasing annual paid leaves from 30 to 45 days for employees working in shops and commercial establishments

Election Commission of India extends postal ballot voting facility to employees of Indian Railways

Parliamentary panel asks labour ministry to strengthen system for collecting data on bonded labour

2021 Budget announces tax on Provident Fund for workers who contribute more than 2.5 lakh per annum

Legal News

France: Court orders government to pay 7.3 million euros ($8.9 million) to former coal miners

India: Supreme Court allows Centre and EPFO's challenge to Kerala HC order which removed the cap on maximum pensionable salary to Rs.15,000 per month

Philippines: Garment workers to take employer First Glory to court against illegal layoff of 300 workers including Union President and members

USA: Google to pay $2.6 million to over 5,500 employees in order to bury pay discrimination case

India: PIL filed in Delhi High Court against the delay in payment of wages of municipal sanitation workers

Workers’ Rights

France: Total workers across the country go on strike against anticipated job losses

Germany: Deutsche Bank Call Centre staff on open-ended strike for pay hike

India: Government Employees begin indefinite protest across Tamil Nadu demanding regularisation of govt jobs, filling govt job vacancies, among others

USA: Alphabet Union approaches NLRB against Google contractor that prohibited workers from discussing about wages, and suspending a worker for the same

UK: Oil workers to strike work against proposed changes in working conditions and layoffs

Myanmar: Health care workers start countrywide civil disobedience movement against the military coup

USA: Amazon stole $61.7 million worth of its workers’ tips finds Federal Commission, will pay the amount to bury allegations

USA:

14,000 jobs at United Airlines at risk after expiry of second round of government aid

Kroger to close two stores in Long Beach after ordinance by local city council mandating a temporary $4 raise to grocery workers

Job cuts at engineering giant Worley in reach 11,400 since start of pandemic

Seimens to cut 7,800 jobs both in the US and internationally

South Africa: 693 Greyhound workers to be retrenched given only 2 weeks’ notice

Studies and Opinions

India: How caste oppression is institutionalised in India’s sanitation jobs

Nepal: Forced labour, bonded labour and child labour prevalent in country’s brick kiln sector, new report says

India: People question the anti-worker, pro-corporate budget

USA: Skill training remains an eyesore for employers as it means retaining the same workers for long term, whereas employers want to hire and fire at their will

Australia: Workers will be worse off under IR Omnibus Bill

USA: Amazon is so scared of the union that it is following workers even in the loo