Labour regulations

#40: Economic Action, Criminal Sanction

How do we decide whether an “economic” action should be punished with criminal sanction?

Dec 18 •

and

#35: Time limits, growth limits

Regulations on working hours limit the potential of India’s most promising oases for skilled work

Sep 18 •

,

, and

#34: ReformScope: Factories Act, 1948, S. 87

Reformscope: Women's freedom to work in India

Sep 11 •

Baishali S Bomjan

#33: DGFASLI’s Standard Reference Notes

Another source of data on Indian factories

Sep 4 •

,

, and

#32: Licence to create jobs

Using administrative data to redesign contract labour law may benefit all

Aug 7 •

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, and

#29: Event | Women, Work, and Regulation in India

10 July 2024 | 4:30-6:00 PM (IST) | Zoom

Jul 3 •

#25: Labour Laws Redux

Enhancing worker’s prosperity through labour law reforms

May 1 •

and

#23: Illusion of Social Security

Assessing the ESIC’s impact on worker welfare

Apr 3 •

and

#20: Old wine in new bottle

Our history of labour welfare fund failures will repeat with the Rajasthan Gig Workers Act

Mar 6 •

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, and

#16: UnSkilling India

Laws designed to regulate apprenticeships are costing Indian youth the opportunity to upskill themselves

Jan 10 •

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Abhishree Choudhary

, and

#15: Navigating India’s minimum wage maze

States may have traded compliance for complexity

Dec 27, 2023 •

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, and

#14: 70-hour work-week

Only organised middle-income manufacturing workers are precluded from exercising the choice of working 70 hours a week

Dec 13, 2023 •

Abhishree Choudhary

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