Labour regulations

#50: Viet Nam adapts, India caps

A Vietnamese factory can complete orders 23% faster and 18% cheaper than an Indian factory

Mar 25 • Bhuvana Anand, Shubho Roy, Pranjal Chandra, and kaushiki kaushalendra singh

#48: Colonial Clocks

How inherited laws and lost sovereignty continue to chain India's factories

Jan 21 • Arjun Krishnan, Bhuvana Anand, and Pranjal Chandra

#46: Too safe to work

A single condition under night shift regulations increases a woman’s employment cost by 86%

Jun 11, 2025 • Bhuvana Anand, Naveena Pradeep, and Shubho Roy

#43: Labour flexibility for the win

Boosting jobs and economic growth through employment regulation reforms

Feb 12, 2025 • Bhuvana Anand, Abhishek Singh, Shubho Roy, and Arjun Krishnan

#42: Week Ideas

To make a 1,000 phones, a factory in Japan needs 40% fewer workers than in India

Jan 29, 2025 • Shubho Roy and Arjun Krishnan

#41: The ILO Shibboleth

India’s working hour limits are not faithful to the labour organisation’s recommendations

Jan 2, 2025 • Abhishek Singh, Shubho Roy, and Bhuvana Anand

#35: Time limits, growth limits

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

Sep 18, 2024 • Bhuvana Anand, Shubho Roy, and Abhishek Singh

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

Reformscope: Women's freedom to work in India

Sep 11, 2024 • Baishali S Bomjan

#33: DGFASLI’s Standard Reference Notes

Another source of data on Indian factories

Sep 4, 2024 • Suyog Dandekar, Shubho Roy, and Abhishek Singh

#32: Licence to create jobs

Using administrative data to redesign contract labour law may benefit all

Aug 7, 2024 • Bhuvana Anand, Arjun Krishnan, and Shubho Roy

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

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

Jul 3, 2024 • Prosperiti

#25: Labour Laws Redux

Enhancing worker’s prosperity through labour law reforms

May 1, 2024 • Suyog Dandekar and Shubho Roy

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