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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.
First they came for the farmers, now they come for the workers
Lok Sabha passes three labour bills dressed up as ‘reforms’ , but will dilute workers’ rights more
Gov’t admits that over 1 crore migrant labourers returned home on foot!
After failing to report data on migrant workers deaths and many frontline warriors of the pandemic Centre now suddenly talks about the number of migrant workers who returned home
Crores allocated for upliftment of manual scavengers remain unused: Lockdown impact?
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment tells Parliament that the scheme for manual scavenging prevention and rehabilitation is not applicable to those sanitation workers who are not identified as manual scavengers.
We stand in solidarity: Trade Unions oppose Centre’s anti-people laws
Denouncing anti-worker laws, National Trade Unions call for a protest on September 23 to address their demands.
Now, Smriti Irani says no data on anganwadi workforce!
Ministry of Women and Child Development submits before Parliament that it has no data for women workers who exited anganwadis.
No data to check unemployment rate in last 12 months?
After a lack of data on migrant workers, medical staff and sanitisation workers, the Centre now fails to provide monthly unemployment rates of the past year.
National Unemployment Day: Youth demand jobs, financial security
Protests held on the streets, and on social media, hashtag #NationalUnemploymentDay shared over 4.16 million times
MGNREGS under microscope: Members of Parliament ask for detailed performance report of scheme
MPs ask the Minister of Rural Development to show records of how MGNREGS had benefited workers during the coronavirus pandemic.
31 online complaints of labourers’ mental exploitation and harassment: Labour and Employment Minister
Questions on labour abuse and minimum wages of labourers raired in Parliament
No data, so no compensation: Centre’s shocking revelation on migrant labourer deaths!
The Ministry of Labour and Employment declares it has no records, though plight of migrant labourers has been widely reported in the media and documented by organisations like CJP
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