Labour Laws

Practice of International Labour Laws in India

Labour rights in India have been based on the norms of the International Labour Organization but these have not led to any noticeable increase in standards. India’s labour regulatory regime can…
▶01-Jun-2023
AV Jose

The Gig Economy in the Pandemic

Several firms in the gig economy have expanded operations during the Covid-19 pandemic. This has been made possible by the ready availability of an at-risk labour force. Fashioned as ‘aggregators’,…
▶04-Jun-2020
Gayatri Nair

How many casual workers in the cities have sought to go home?

There has been no count of the number of workers returning to their home states. An analysis of NSS data tells us that the first wave of returnees is likely to be mainly urban casual workers who lost…
▶27-May-2020
Nomaan Majid