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Category: Employment

What Happens To Employees When a Company Goes Bankrupt?

During bankruptcy, the employees are often seen as expendable. During the procedure, their savings and pensions are spent on survival (of the company). Can the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code change that?
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Going Beyond GDP: Women and Unpaid Household Work

For centuries, the burden of unpaid household work (UHW) has unequally been borne by our women. Kamal Hassan’s recently proposed to pay women for their domestic work. The idea originally comes from proposals by Western feminists to monetise household work but the cost of such labour is high in the west, unlike India. In this…
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Are the new Farm Bills Exploitative?

This article will analyze the Farm Bills 2020, the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Bypass Bill, and Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill. This article seeks to identify if the farm bills are a boon or the bane for the economy.
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Broken Markets – Reflection from the labour landscape (Part II)

In this article, the author discusses the trend in budgetary allocations to schemes such as MNREGA to bring out the stark reality through the data analyzed in the July Issue of Infosphere.
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Victims of Industrial Accidents: The Poor State of Relief Safeguards for Them

Our continuous reliance on civil society’s pressure in seeking justice exposes the systemic failure of the state in ensuring the protection of our blue-collared workers. Rishita Sankrit writes about the victims of industrial accidents and how monetary compensations are not enough.
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BROKEN MARKETS: REFLECTIONS FROM INDIA’S LABOUR LANDSCAPE

Divyansh Singh provides a narrative to support the data in the Infosphere Issue on India’s labour markets.
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Labour and its pivotal role in classical economics

Ascertaining labour’s intricate relationship with other agents within an economic system has been a fundamental question in the evolution of economic thought. The predominance of social division provides the basis for determination of many economic factors. Each economist has theorised the role and relative importance of each economic agent. Since labour is copious, it plays…
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CRISIS OF EMPLOYMENT AND DEFLATION IN AMERICA: PAST AND PRESENT

While the coronavirus crisis is most unique in the history of the United States, the nation’s economic history does have certain precedents for tackling the crisis of unemployment and deflation.
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‘The Silences in Modi’s Speech’ – Decoding the Unspoken

In this article, I will highlight two broad issues that were not addressed in the Prime Minister’s speech – the concerns with medical infrastructure and the problems faced by migrant labourers.
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Causes and Recovery of the Indian Economy Slowdown.

From Jan-March 2019 to July- Sep 2019, the Indian economy received a steep fall in its gross domestic product from 8.2% to 4.5%. Reasons for this economic trend seem to encompass many; however, can also be summarized for the purpose of a basic understanding of the situation at hand. One of the major reasons talked…
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Gig Economy: The Word is Out!

In this article the author discusses the gig economy & the rise of non-traditional work. The piece also elucidates how the sharing economy is growing by leaps & bounds & reshaping the job market.
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BUDGET 2019: Expectations from the last of Ache Din

In this article the author Niharika Yadav provides a stake holder analysis of the upcoming budget.
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