CHANGES IN LABOUR JURISPRUDENCE IN WEST BENGAL IN COVID-19
By Koyel Roy
(Assistant Professor of Law, Amity University, Kolkata)
| Abstract The utter disregard for the value of human life could not be starker than in using the COVID-19 crisis as the foreground for the whittling down of labour rights. The proposed moves are the most short-sighted manifestation of the hasty assumptions that continue to undergird the case for neoliberal reform of India’s labour law framework. The government of India has also amended 44 existing labour laws in the country, defining four labour codes, incorporating anti-worker provisions. The nationwide lockdown, which was imposed without warning, has created unparalleled distress amongst the working class and the nation witnessed the largest migration ever since the Partition. All of this happened at a time when millions of unorganised workers were already facing major crises as a result of the collapse of the informal economy. The workers who returned to the villages faced severe poverty. |
| Keywords Labour laws, Covid-19, lockdown, labour rights. |
| Type | Research Paper |
| Information | Lex Humanitariae: Journal for a Change, Volume III Issue I, Pages 310-322 |
| DOI Link | https://doi-ds.org/doilink/04.2022-65713645/lexhumanitariae/V3I1/A36 |
| ISSN | 2582-5216 |
| Creative Commons | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. |
| Copyright | © 2022- Lex Humanitariae: Journal for a Change |