Kiran Moghe

Jun 16, 2023 | theleaflet.in | Kiran Moghe

The International Labour Organisation has adopted Convention 189 to ensure decent work for domestic workers. India’s failure to ratify it manifests the perils of a flawed system. While trade unions are hard at work on the issue, the government’s cold shoulder sets them back to square one.

May 1, 2023 | theleaflet.in | Kiran Moghe

Workers work more than 48 hours per week in Asia–Pacific with the highest proportion of workers working for more than 48 hours in Southern Asia (57.1 percent) and Eastern Asia (47.7 percent) as against the lowest proportion of workers with long working hours (11 percent) in Europe and Central Asia. —INDIA first observed May Day in Madras (now Chennai) in 1923 when Communist leader M.S. Chettiar tore off a piece of his daughter’s red saree to hoist the ‘Red Flag’.

Mar 10, 2023 | epw.in | Anuradha Kalhan |Shamsher Singh |Kiran Moghe

Employment, incomes, and the bargaining power of the informally employed, who form 86% of workers in the Indian economy, have been repeatedly impoverished due to disruptions like demonetisation and the lockdown. This article presents additional evidence from a survey of the stranded interstate migrant workers, informally employed in the city of Pune.