The Unmasking of Migrant Workers’ Crises and Reality of Social Security in India

The migrant crisis during the pandemic highlighted the vulnerabilities faced by migrants. Recently, the Supreme Court issued an important judgment towards the welfare of migrants. The judgment mandated a portal for the registration of all informal/migrant workers. Azim Premji University’s State of Working India Report 2021 presents a survey of surveys along with the findings…

Labor Crisis

The repercussions of the COVID-19 crisis for worker explorer laborers, and relaxed trained professionals, have been obliterating. They consolidate chance of connection, identical remuneration for comparable work, safe working conditions, invalidation of compelled work and sex-based isolation, business affirmation, game plan of government retirement associate, security of voyager workers, removal of indecent conduct of women…

CHILD LABOR- A CURSE

INTRODUCTION: Work that deprives children of their youth, their potential, and their dignity, as well as work that is hazardous to their physical and mental development, is sometimes referred to as “child labor.” It refers to work-– that is dangerous and harmful to children on a mental, physical, social, or moral level; and/or – interferes…

INTERNATIONAL AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL FACADE OF CHILD LABOUR

Although firmly rooted in human culture, child labour was again a subject of national discussion in the late 1980s. Over that decade, the so-called developing world civil society became conscious that the black and white images of children employed during the Western Industrial Revolution http://Elias Mendelievich, Child Labour, 118 INT’l LAB. REV. 557 (1979). could just as easily be…

child labour

The child labour is not a recent phenomenon and that too not confined to any particular state. The main thrust of the ILO conventions have been on:1) minimum age for employment of children and2) prohibition of night work for children. The Supreme Court in many cases has emphatically stated that the International Labour Organization (ILO)…

Minimum wage in India

Foreign companies in India can find it difficult to understand and calculate the minimum wage as it differs in each state and is classified according to multiple criteria such as region, industry, skill level and type of work. Until last year, the minimum wage was governed by the Minimum Wage Act, 1948 which changed after…

CHILD TRAFFICKING IN INDIA : REALITIES AND REALIZATION

The process of illegal transporting and transfer below the age of 18 years for the purpose of exploitation is known as Child Trafficking.                                                                                This problem is prevalent in most developing countries due to porous borders and weak domestic laws to counter the issue. There are various causes of child trafficking like lack of employment, poverty,…