Aug 16, 2021 | Working Class
The 75th Independence Day of India is practically the first for workers in the country without the official protection of crucial labour laws, like the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, the Factories Act, 1948 among others. Some of these laws are as old as the country’s...
Aug 16, 2021 | Working Class
आज़ादी की 75वीं वर्षगाँठ र्ष पर देश के मज़दरूों के लिए आज़ादी के बाद लगभग पहली बार कई ज़रूरी श्रम क़ाननू जैसे, इंडस्ट्रीयल डिस्पयूट्स अधिनियम (1947), फ़ैक्ट्रीज़ अधिनियम (1948), आदि का सुरक्षा कवच उपलब्ध नहीं होगा। इनमें से कुछ क़ाननू तो भारत की आज़ादी के साथ लाए गए...
Aug 6, 2021 | Political Prisoners, Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
PUDR’s report, Framed to Die: The Case of Stan Swamy, offers an exhaustive account of what lay behind Stan Swamy’s death in judicial custody in a private hospital on 5 July 2021. As is known, he was arrested from his room in Bagaicha ATC campus on 8 October 2020 under...
May 29, 2021 | Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights
People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) condemns the turn of events at Silanger village in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh over the past two weeks. On 12 May, a CRPF camp was set up at the Silanger village despite protests by the residents of nearby villages. On 17...
May 7, 2021 | Undemocratic Laws, Violation of Civil and Democratic Rights, Working Class
On 4 May 2021, the Central Government’s Ministry of Labour and Employment notified certain Draft Rules under the Industrial Relations Code, 2020, one of the 4 Labour Codes passed by Parliament in 2019-20. The Industrial Relations Code 2020 (henceforth ‘IR Code’)...
