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Sumedha Pal
COVID Crisis: Rescue Operations for Bonded Labour at Halt, Exploitation Grows
02 Jun 2021
The lockdown has meant limited movement, lack of legal attention and continued exploitation of marginalised workers in informal set-ups agreeing to pay hefty loans and working at meagre wages, all in…
Sumedha Pal
Informal Sector Workers Continue to Struggle with Low Wages, High Debts: ActionAid Report
08 Nov 2020
Almost 24% of the respondents reported having earned no wages in the unlock phases and close to 50% said that their monthly wages were less than Rs 5,000.
KR Shyam Sundar
What is Wrong With the Centre’s New Labour Codes
22 Sep 2020
The new labour codes of the government are mere instruments for labour law flexibility, without considering the consequences for workers.
Prudhviraj Rupavath
Looking to Return Home, Telangana’s Migrant Workers Protest For Two Days
04 May 2020
According to the state government’s estimates, 4.10 lakh migrant workers are currently in labour camps across the state.
Newsclick Team
BSNL Contract Workers' Salary Pending for Nearly 1 Year
08 Feb 2020
The contract workers of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) across the country have been waiting for their wages for more than 11 months. So far, seven contract workers have been forced to kill…
Newsclick Report
TSRTC Workers End Strike as CM Asks Them to Rejoin
29 Nov 2019
The strike that began October 5 was taken forward in a peaceful manner with various forms of demonstrations including rallies, hunger strikes and dawn-to-dusk sadak bandh.
Newsclick Team
How Is India's Garment Industry Exploiting Its Workers?
20 Jun 2019
Let's take a look at NewsClick's field report on how 20,000 garment workers in Udyog Vihar, Haryana are surviving in miserable living conditions.
Subodh Varma
Modi’s Rule Is Boosting Profits, Squeezing Wages
24 Sep 2018
Share of profits of big industrialists has jumped from 31% to nearly 48% in four years propelled by brazen anti-worker policies.
Newsclick Report
Under MGNREGA, 99 Percent of Wages Remain Unpaid For April 2018
12 Apr 2018
Delayed payments and low wage rates had been the major problems with the MGNREGA scheme ever since its implementation.
Pavan Kulkarni, The Dawn News
Republican States in U.S Rocked by Teachers’ Strike, One After Another
07 Apr 2018
U.S is one of the countries with the lowest teachers’ pay among the OECD.