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Labour rights, health of workers hit in the name of “reform”: PUCL Maharashtra
A detailed statement by the Maharashtra unit of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has, with reasoned arguments, critiqued the recent decision of the MahaYuti government in Maharashtra to curtail labour rights in the name of “reform”; Maharashtra government’s decision is in line with other states like Telangana, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Tripura (two of these are Congress ruled states) which have also enacted similar legislations.
Karnataka: Two manual scavengers choke to death in a manhole
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Support grows for Migrant Workers’ Right to Vote
Webinar examines roadblocks in ensuring migrant workers get to exercise their right to vote, a CJP Core Campaign
Five killed in Serum Institute fire in Pune
Migrant labourers fixing air-conditioning among the dead
Gujarat: 15 people including toddler killed after being run over by truck
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Safai Karamchari Andolan campaigns against dry latrines
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Garbage piles up in Ahmedabad, as sanitation workers strike work
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India yet to ratify the Convention on Migrant workers
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41 Orgns call for workers unions to join farmers protest
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Wistron Factory Vandalism: Karnataka Gov’t registers FIR against 7,000 employees
Karnataka State IT/ITes Employee Union, and other organisations have condemned the criminal charges pressed against the contract workers
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