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Medha Patkar meeting striking ITI workers
Economy

Opinion: Contract workers in PSUs–marginalised castes, women, main victims of discrimination

March 23, 2022 Malini Ranganathan

Coded discrimination, disproportionately affecting women and people from marginalised castes and classes, is a key feature of the contract labour system.

Sex workers holding a protest banner
Society

Bengaluru’s sex workers: old work spaces are all gone, the city now considers them ‘undesirables’

February 28, 2022 Anant Kamath and Neethi P

An entire ecology around street-based sex work has slowly disintegrated, pushing many of them into further invisibility and vulnerability

Civic

Report exhumes plight of workers who bury/cremate Bengaluru’s dead

May 28, 2021 News Desk

The city owes much, in terms of dignity, pay and benefits, to crematorium and burial ground workers, especially in the pandemic, the report recommends.

Economy

Panel discusses legal protections for gig economy workers

June 17, 2020 Sneha Visakha

A discussion co-organised by Citizen Matters and Vidhi Legal looked at the precarity of workers in the gig economy, and how the sector can be regulated to protect them.

Economy

Citizen Matters, Vidhi Legal invite you to a discussion on formalising the Gig Economy

June 8, 2020 News Desk

COVID-19 crisis brought into sharp focus the precarious conditions of gig workers. How can the gig economy be regulated to ensure fair work conditions? Tune into a discussion by Citizen Matters and Vidhi Legal.

Governance

“Why do Shramik trains seem like planned nightmares?”

June 5, 2020 Anita Cheria

Government’s COVID response has failed to recognise the migrant worker as human. While the workers are treated like criminals, the real culprits behind their plight go scot-free.

Economy

Survey: Garment factory workers say they won’t, and can’t, work longer hours

May 25, 2020 Clifton D'rozario

Karnataka government has allowed factories to increase work hours. But in a survey, majority of garment factory workers said it was simply impossible for them to work extra hours.

Governance

“Karnataka should strengthen labour laws, not weaken them”: AICCTU

May 19, 2020 Clifton D'rozario

The trade union AICCTU has written to the state government, asking not to proceed with its plans to dilute labour laws. Rather, these laws should be strengthened so that workers affected by the lockdown are protected, the union said.

Society

On Labour Day, a look into the homes and lives of Namma Metro workers  

May 1, 2020 Angarika Guha

Often 12-20 workers are crammed into a 10×10 ft room or even smaller. The rooms are poorly ventilated, and there’s only toilet for over a hundred people in many labour colonies.

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Economy

‘We are not criminals’

December 5, 2011 Navya P K

The police and the residents want the domestic workers to be profiled to security reasons. Domestic workers are protesting the move. What is the need for this profiling?


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