K., Venkataraman (2020) Coronavirus lockdown: How can inter-state workers be protected?
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On Friday, May 8, 16 migrant labourers who were trying to return to Madhya Pradesh, their home State, on foot were killed when a goods train ran over them between Jalna and Aurangabad districts in Maharashtra. Following the novel coronavirus pandemic, the nationwide lockdown announced on March 24 at short notice has caused immense distress to migrant workers around the country. Hundreds have been seen trying to walk home to Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Odisha from their places of work in Rajasthan, Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat and so forth. Questions are being raised about their welfare and the lack of legal protection for their rights. Those working in the field of labour welfare have recalled a 1979 law to regulate the employment and working conditions of inter-State migrants, but feel that the lack of serious implementation has led to their rights being ignored. As part of the present regime’s efforts towards consolidating and reforming labour law, a Bill has been introduced in Parliament called the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2019. The proposed code seeks to merge 13 labour laws into a single piece of legislation. The Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979, is one of them. Activists fear that specific safeguards given to migrant workers may be lost as a result of this consolidation.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Covid, Migrants, Maharashtra, Occupational Safety, Health Conditions, Working Conditions, Labour Standards, Workers Protection, Madhya Pradesh, India |
| Subjects: | Decent Work |
| Depositing User: | Chitti Babu ICSF |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2021 06:34 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Dec 2021 06:42 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/5877 |
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