At the outset my tribute to National Institute of Personnel Management which has been organizing Naval Tata Memorial Lectures every year for the past 30…
“Wage Theft is so common” my lawyer friend once told me, “It is so common and yet its implications are not grasped by people at…
Believe it or not. Some accidents are more important than other accidents. And some lives are more important than other lives. Chances are that conscientious…
The recent Bombay High Court judgement striking down ‘rotational employment of temporary workers’ at Bajaj Auto is a welcome development. Call it an unfair labour…
Thane HR Group had invited Dr. Vidyadhar Ishwar (Labour Economist and Associate Prof at Aston University, Birmingham, UK) to deliver a talk on ‘Labour Market…
There are several external factors influence industrial relations. Let us take a quick look at them. The first factor which affects industrial relations is the…
Precariat is the most neglected part of the workforce today; not just in India but all over the world. My blogs on BPCL, Temporary workers’…
After I published my blog ‘The Anatomy of Wistron Workers’ Violence’. I received this document. It is the report submitted to The Chief Minister of…
The Press has extensively reported the violence at Wistron. It points to a big malaise about the way work is organised and compensated. Let us…
It is important to watch the documentary ‘Rotten’ on Netflix to understand how people prove Galbraith’s acute observation: ‘Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism,…