It is time to protect India’s workers from the heat

In the first week of April 2025, Delhi crossed a dangerous threshold: the temperature soared above 41°C, and nights offered little relief. These extreme conditions are no longer outliers but …

Scorching Heat Threatens Home-based Women Workers

Each evening, as daylight fades behind the rising mounds of the Bhalswa landfill, 26-year-old Paro leaves behind the mohalla’s evening chatter and hurries back to her one-room home in Shraddhanand …

Amazon faces Indian court scrutiny for labour conditions at warehouse

Amazon is facing prosecution in an Indian court for labour law violations at a major warehouse near the country’s national capital of Delhi. Documents reviewed by Al Jazeera through India’s …

India’s female gig workers facing harassment and unsafe conditions, seek change and justice

Thousands of female gig workers in India encounter unsafe working conditions, including sexual harassment, low wages, erratic hours, and a lack of access to basic amenities such as toilets. With weak enforcement of …

Justice Chandru says TN govt dragging its feet to register union demanded by Samsung workers

As the indefinite strike by workers at Samsung’s Sriperumbudur plant entered its second month, labour law and industrial disputes expert and retired High Court judge K Chandru questioned why the …

Samsung sues Indian labour union over strike as dispute escalates

Samsung Electronics’ Indian unit has sued members of a labour union that has led a strike for 11 days at its only India home appliances plant in the southern state of …

Temporary’ Employees Working For Decades Like Regular Govt Employees Can’t Be Denied Equal Benefits: Supreme Court

INDIA -The Supreme Court on Thursday (Aug. 22) observed that the employees who were performing the duties indistinguishable from the regular government employees cannot be deprived of the benefits accorded …

Sugar Industry Faces Pressure Over Coerced Hysterectomies and Labor Abuses

The sugar industry is facing pressure to clean up its supply chains and improve oversight after revelations that women in India, the world’s second-largest sugar producer, work in debt bondage and …

SEWA India provides members with heat wave insurance

SEWA (Self Employed Women’s Association) which organizes women workers in the informal sector, including home-based workers in the garment industry and workers engaged in the downstream shipbreaking industry, launched a …

India human rights body says Reuters story on Foxconn hiring raises discrimination concerns

NEW DELHI, July 1 (Reuters) – India’s human rights watchdog said on Monday it had asked government officials to examine reported discrimination by Foxconn, after a Reuters investigation, opens new tab found …