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How Workers Fared in 2023  January 6th 2024

In the Courts

Supreme Court Orders Payment Of Rs. 650 Crores To Workers Of 25 Tea Gardens In Assam

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'Ensure Manual Sewer Cleaning Is Completely Eradicated' : Read 14 Directions Issued By Supreme Court Against Manual Scavenging

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Regularizing Service Of Few Employees And Not Others Despite Eligibility Is Violative Of Article 14: Supreme Court

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How Many Women Promoted In Navy After Permanent Commission? Not Possible That None Was Competent : Supreme Court Asks Navy

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Govt Servants Required To Be At Disposal Of Govt All The Time; Can't Claim Overtime Allowance Under Factories Act : Supreme Court

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Delhi Pollution : Supreme Court Suggests Excluding Farmers Burning Stubble From Minimum Support Price

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Regular worker and daily wager equal under gratuity act: HC

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Women in the Workforce

Maharashtra | Changing weather patterns and easy microfinance loans are pushing women farmers into a debt cycle

thehindu.com

With hard hats and shovels women break the rock ceiling

Women coal mine workers of Bengal and Jharkhand are breaching the male bastion

thehindu.com

Coding helps girls in small town India programme their way to better lives

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In India, women struggle with pay gap across sectors

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Gender pay gap widens as women go up the tech ladder

timesascent.com

Women-led startups rise to 18% in past five years: Report

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Sanofi India’s Goa plant approves night shifts for women

hrkatha.com

Childcare & maternity leaves for women in armed forces: Defence Ministry

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Battles Won

Kerala: Nurses Strike in Thrissur Pvt Hospitals Forces Managements to Agree on Assured Minimum Wages

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Truce Between Bellsonica Workers, Management; Suspended Employees to be Reinstated

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GM decides to reverse the layoff of 1,245 employees

hrkatha.com

580 BMC sanitation workers win case for job permanency after 24 years

hindustantimes.com

Child Labour News

Gather data, devise strategies, change policies and laws comprehensively to stop child labour: Parliamentary Panel to Centre

thehindu.com

National Policy on Child Labour – An Assessment

Fifty-second Report of the Standing Committee on Labour, Textiles, and Skill Develop ment (2023-24)

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Tribal children engaged in plantation labour

thehindu.com

Child labour cases spike in Delhi

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443 cases booked against people for engaging child labour in Andhra Pradesh

thehindu.com

CRY aims to free 553 villages from child labour in south India

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Climate Change and Workers

Zanskar’s yak herders are feeling the heat

With temperatures climbing in Ladakh, yak herders in the Zanskar valley are finding it difficult and unprofitable to maintain their herd.

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4,500 minerals extraction workers in Jalpaiguri jobless due to Sikkim flash flood

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Read the tea leaves: Climate change taking toll on Darjeeling tea gardens and workers

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Exploited Workers

On India’s 77th Independence Day, Driven By Poverty, Caste, Millions Of Migrant Workers Live As Modern Slaves

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How Indians Are Endangering The Health of Their Domestic Workers: New Study

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Odisha: Delayed Rehab Funds, Scarce Jobs Push Rescued Workers Back to Bonded Labour

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Meagre Wages

Narendra Modi government delays revision in national floor level minimum wages

telegraphindia.com

Focus on gig workers isn’t enough. New report paints bleak picture of India’s wage labourers

theprint.in

Madhya Pradesh: Rural Workers Get Lowest Daily Wages, Below National Average

thewire.in

Annual Report on Digital Labour Platforms Shows Worker Pay Is Largely Below Living Wage

thewire.in

Only Three E-Commerce Platforms In India Have Minimum Wage Policy For Gig Workers: Study

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Workers at India’s Largest Mandi Still Paid Decades-Old Rates, Can’t Afford Vegetables

thewire.in

Migrant Tragedies

Coromandel Express chugs out for first time since Balasore tragedy, need overrides fear for life

telegraphindia.com

A 'Migrant Train', the Coromandel Express Had Been the Ticket to a Livelihood for Bengal's Poorest

thewire.in

Injured migrant workers face uncertain future after Balasore train accident

hindustantimes.com
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