as the set of reforms introduced by the current government in August last year shows, suggestions made by the trade unions have been generally overlooked.11The need for a more democratic approach to labour law reform that takes into account the interests of various sections of informal labour can...
labour lawcomplianceregulationMoradabadglobal buyersThis paper is based on fieldwork for a doctoral thesis on the metalware cluster of Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh. I present two different ways by which labour standards are regulated in the city: first by the state labour administration and second, by ...
Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand The Labor Welfare Fund (LWF) Act does not apply to all categories of employees working in a company. It depends on salary and employee designation. In addition, the total number of employees must be checked before this law is enacted. The scope of the law b...
Participatory Statistics to Measure Prevalence in Bonded Labour Hotspots in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar: Report of Preliminary Findings of the Baseline Study The Institute of Development Studies has been carrying out a programme of research, learning and evaluation in relation to the Freedom Fund 'hotspot...
In India there is law that children under the age of 18 should not work but‚ there is no outright ban on child labor‚ and the practice is generally permitted in most industries except those deemed "hazardous". Although a law in October 2006 banned child labor in hotels‚ restaurants...
As a Director-Designate (1974–1984) of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), I was privileged to adopt the first ever five-year integrated LLB course that was finally put in operation, when the school became operational in 1986. Yet another episode in Giri’s life might ...
Google Scholar The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, No 42 of 2005 with Schedulesas amended in 2014, Universal Law Publishing Co: New Delhi. Google Scholar Download references Author information Authors and Affiliations Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India As...
Five other states (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh) are understood to constitute the majority of total working children in India [17]. Even the figure of 6% may therefore suggest that official figures in the national census for child domestic workers in India (...