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The Orissa High Court awards them Rs 20 lakh each to two SBI Sweepers

Two daily-wage sweepers had given their “sweat & blood” to the State Bank of India, the Orissa High Court said on June 23

CJP Grassroots Fellow comes to the aid of a migrant worker in distress

Mohd. Ripon Sheikh helped Mirchand Sheikh, a young mason from Jharkhand, get his pending wages, by taking his plea to higher authorities

UP ASHAs have had enough of empty election promises

Women protest the lack of security while they serve as the backbone of rural healthcare

e-SHRAM records over 8 crore registrations, but are all inequalities addressed?

The Labour and Employment Ministry claimed successful growth of the portal due to high registrations from the informal sector, but there are still some lacunae

UP: Mid-day meal cooks get Rs. 7,500 but three months salary still pending

Varanasi’s local authorities say they could only pay five months of mid-day meal cooks’ salaries with the funds they received

MDM cooks refute gov’t claims of 8-month wage payment

While MDMA claims that the eight-month pending wages have been transferred, MDM cooks say their accounts reflect no such transactions

UP: Mid-day meal cooks not paid wages for eight months of wages

While government officials claim that the women will soon receive their wages, cooks-cum-helpers how long they can survive without money.

UP: Anganwadi workers, MDM cooks and ASHA workers non paid wages for months!

Workers decry the government's failure to address fiscal issues addressed in their own manifestoes

Delhi workers gherao Kejriwal’s house, demand regularisation 

Workers condemned the AAP government for repeatedly failing to address contract workers’ concerns despite including them in election manifestos

Contract workers to gherao Kejriwal’s house

Contract workers demand regularisation, sweeper compensation and suspension of contract practice as per ruling party’s election promises

Unique 5-day Satyagrah by UNI employees ends in the hope that dues will be paid

Management accepts the backlog of 56 months’ salary, says it represented a “grave state of affairs”

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