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#Modi_Job_Do: Youth Demand Jobs as Millions of Posts Flood Twitter in India
25 Feb 2021
Look past the memes and the jibes being taken at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Twitter this afternoon and the picture that emerges is of a desperate young country clamouring for jobs at a time when…
Ditsa Bhattacharya
Survey Says About One-Fifth of Informal Sector Workers Still Out of Work after Lockdown
29 Jan 2021
Nine in 10 households reported cutting back on food consumption during the lockdown because of a lack of income. Six months later, only one-third of the households reported that consumption was back…
Subodh Varma
India Faces Grim Jobs Crisis: 1.7 crore Jobs Lost in Past Year
17 Jan 2021
Since September 2020, as many as 90 lakh jobs have been lost but the government is acting as if everything is hunky-dory.
Mohd. Imran Khan
Bihar: No Earning Post-Lockdown, Teacher Ends Life Allegedly Due to Bank Pressure
09 Jan 2021
The chemistry teacher in Bhagalpur was depressed after being publicly humiliated for not repaying a loan, alleged his relatives.
PTI
Informal Sector Workers Face Double Blow – Pandemic and Social Exclusion
26 Dec 2020
“We are still being treated as untouchable,” rue jobless domestic helps, rickshaw pullers among others, who are sliding back to poverty.
Prabhat Patnaik
Why Recovery at Cost of Worker Immiserisation Won’t Last Long
21 Nov 2020
GDP recovery from the lockdown-induced abyss is accompanied by significant labour displacement and squeeze on wages, which will impact aggregate demand.
Subodh Varma
Sacked -- 50 lakh Industrial Workers, 62 Lakh Professional Employees
20 Sep 2020
In addition, some 1.1 crore daily wage earners too lost their jobs compared with last year.
Subodh Varma
Six Months of Pandemic: Why India Lost the Battle
13 Sep 2020
It seems like a lifetime of heartache, worry, fear and uncertainty, but it was only six months ago, on March 11, that the World Health Organisation (WHO)
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Thousands of Scheme Workers Protest on the First Day of All-India Strike
07 Aug 2020
The trade unions had listed a set of 15 demands which included calling for a withdrawal of the privatisation of basic services and no further changes to the labour laws in the name of COVID-19.
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Scheme Workers Call for All India Strike on August 7,8; Jail Bharo and Satyagraha on August 9
06 Aug 2020
The workers, affiliated with the Central Trade Unions, also put forth a list of 15 demands, calling for a withdrawal of privatisation of basic services and no further changes to the labour laws in…