Labour Rights
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Industrial Relations Code, 2020: Collective Bargaining Without Strong Rights?
New labour codes namely Code of Social Security, 2020; The OSH Code, 2020; Code of Wages, 2019; and IR Code, 2020, are enacted and consolidated 29 central laws, with the aim of unification, simplification and to promote ease of doing business, which was also the recommendation of 2nd labour commission in 2002. Pre-labour law such…
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Waste Pickers, Labour Rights, and the Law: Analysing India’s New Waste Management Framework and Comparative Judicial Lessons from Colombia
Abstract “Informality is not an absence of law, but a reflection of how law chooses to exclude”.[i] This insight captures the paradoxical status of waste pickers in India, a group estimated at over four million who are indispensable to urban waste management yet remain legally invisible.[ii] Waste pickers contribute substantially to the economy and the…