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Sit Where We Stand: The segregated back rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces
The absence of dignified break rooms for sanitation staff in urban spaces is a visible residue of caste-exclusionary practices that have become normalised. Women who work here—whether in universities or elsewhere—are often left with no option but to rest on bathroom floors.
Manual Scavenger Dies While Cleaning Well, no Case filed After a Month
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A month has passed since Kalidas died, and a case has still not been filed under the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers Act, 2013.
Differences Over Labour Codes, Trade Unions Demand Tripartite Conference
According to unions, the ]multi-stakeholder consultations planned by the Centre cannot replace Indian Labour Conference meetings, whose session has not taken place since 2015.
Zomato Workers win Back Benefits After 4-Day Strike in Thiruvananthapuram
Weekly incentives would be calculated under three new slabs and the rain surge percentage has been reinstated.
80,000 Outsourced Health Employees in UP Not Paid For Months
Agencies that hired these employees claim that the departments concerned have not released the budget for this financial year.
Delhi Police attacks terminated anganwadi workers and helpers
The Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Union of Delhi in...
You promised 50 lakh houses, give us one: Ahmedabad migrant women’s plea to Modi
Women display letters containing rakhi for PM Poor labouring families,...
UP: Mid-day Meal Workers Not Paid Honorarium For 5 Months, Forced to Borrow for Daily Needs
Of the 3.25 lakh cook-cum-helpers, 90% are women, mostly single women and widows, who are solely dependent on their monthly honorarium
‘Grossly inadequate’: NREGA allocation 0.29% of GDP, World Bank recommended 1.6%
A civil society tracker, seeking to periodically analyse the...
TN: Rural Workers Unite to Demand Jobs, Social Security and Housing
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Nationwide call with a 28-point charter of demands; more than 50,000 workers staged demonstrations across Tamil Nadu on August 1
AIFUCTO Calls for Withdrawing NEP, Revival of old Pension Scheme
The teachers’ unions are asking for a special session in Parliament to debate the New Education Policy 2020
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