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Textile employers in the Guarat city of Surat in west India are appealing to the central government to provide additional public transport to bring back workers from Odisha on the eastern side of the country …

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The Assam Assembly has just passed two related Factories Amendment Acts and an Amendment of the Industrial Disputes Act …

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There is some discussion within the government of the Indian States of Madhya Pradesh and Assam about restricting government jobs to those born in those states …

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The grant paid to, or for, a pregnant woman covered by the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) is to be increased to Rs7,500 (US$99 …

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The Gujarat government has just passed the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) (Gujarat Amendment) Ordinance, 2020 …

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The government of Karnataka has amended Chapter 5 (b) of the Industrial Disputes Act 1947 …

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The health emergency has severely interrupted the national government’s programme to reform labour laws …

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A heated dispute continues between the Federal government and a growing number of states that are relaxing labour laws, and, in particular, removing job security and allowing the working day to run unchecked (and without overtime premia) well beyond 8 hours a day …

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A sometimes bitter confrontation has been taking place since March between the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and the Supreme Court over the obligation of employers to continue paying wages during the first 50 days of the lockdown period, when employees could not work …

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Although Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh have relaxed labour laws to help attract investment, Maharashtra – the state that embraces Mumbai – has decided to use other means towards that end …

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The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has proposed an amendment to the Right of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act 2016, to remove a range of offences that discourage business investment …

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Over 122 million people lost their jobs in April 2020 alone …

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The Punjab government has recently withdrawn its 1st of May Order, which announced a hike in the “dearness allowance” (DA) component of the minimum wage by over 4% …

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The country took just one week to go from 100,000 to 200,000 cases of COVID-19, with 6,000 fatalities …

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The gas leak at the LG Polymers factory in Visakhapatnam on the 7th of May has brought back memories of the Bhopal disaster in 1984 …

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