Labour Laws Archives - Vivek Patwardhan https://vivekvsp.com/category/labour-laws/ The Events in Human Resources and Employee Relations space, and in My World through my eyes. Sun, 30 Mar 2025 17:51:00 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 113682794 Solapur – In the World of Beedi Workers https://vivekvsp.com/2025/03/beedi-workers/ https://vivekvsp.com/2025/03/beedi-workers/#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2025 17:50:54 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=9415 The first part of this series was published earlier titled ‘Solapur – Exploiting The Beedi Workers’ and this is the second part. Nagesh was accompanying...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2025/03/beedi-workers/feed/ 6 9415 Because Bernie Sanders Said It https://vivekvsp.com/2024/10/bernie-sanders/ https://vivekvsp.com/2024/10/bernie-sanders/#comments Thu, 10 Oct 2024 12:06:18 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=9011 His Bold Solutions To Burning Issues Bernie Sanders has said it all! Everything, which HR and Industrial Relations professionals have been saying. He has said...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2024/10/bernie-sanders/feed/ 13 9011 Leading the Gig Workers https://vivekvsp.com/2024/07/leading-the-gig-workers/ https://vivekvsp.com/2024/07/leading-the-gig-workers/#comments Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:38:57 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=8581 Social Security For Them Is A Burning Issue Organising Gig workers, Platform based workers is perhaps the most difficult task in the world. The governments...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2024/07/leading-the-gig-workers/feed/ 9 8581 Rotational Employment of Temporary Workers Illegal https://vivekvsp.com/2021/05/temporary-workers-2/ https://vivekvsp.com/2021/05/temporary-workers-2/#comments Sat, 15 May 2021 16:41:59 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=6822 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...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2021/05/temporary-workers-2/feed/ 15 6822 A Hard Look at the Industrial Relations https://vivekvsp.com/2021/02/hard-look-industrial-relations/ https://vivekvsp.com/2021/02/hard-look-industrial-relations/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2021 16:41:05 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=6606 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...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2021/02/hard-look-industrial-relations/feed/ 4 6606 Ripping Apart The Fabric Of The Nation https://vivekvsp.com/2020/05/ripping-fabric/ https://vivekvsp.com/2020/05/ripping-fabric/#comments Fri, 22 May 2020 10:31:07 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=6153 “Watching Mahabharat, eh?” Lulu, my parrot, flew in and landed on the chair next to me. Just in case you do not know, parrots have...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2020/05/ripping-fabric/feed/ 7 6153 The Terrible Life Of Temporary Workers https://vivekvsp.com/2018/12/temporary-workers/ https://vivekvsp.com/2018/12/temporary-workers/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2018 15:18:47 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=5454 I was speaking to a union committee member at Bosch. In his mid-forties, he was a cheerful person. We discussed his career with the company....

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2018/12/temporary-workers/feed/ 15 5454 Why HR Managers and CEOs Must Give Contract Labour a Fresh Thought https://vivekvsp.com/2018/07/contract-labour/ https://vivekvsp.com/2018/07/contract-labour/#comments Sat, 14 Jul 2018 15:51:13 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=5258 [The author of this article is Mr Sharad Patil, the former Director General of The Employers Federation of India. HR Managers and CEOs alike listen...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2018/07/contract-labour/feed/ 1 5258 Anomie in Industrial Relations https://vivekvsp.com/2017/07/anomie-exploitation/ https://vivekvsp.com/2017/07/anomie-exploitation/#comments Wed, 26 Jul 2017 17:46:58 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=4904 I published the story of Rajendra Vighe. It was captioned ‘The Contracts of Exploitation.’ In this post I take the story further to explain how...

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]]> https://vivekvsp.com/2017/07/anomie-exploitation/feed/ 6 4904 Labour Reforms Must Mean Economic Development https://vivekvsp.com/2017/03/labour-reform-policy/ https://vivekvsp.com/2017/03/labour-reform-policy/#comments Fri, 03 Mar 2017 16:55:10 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/?p=4775 I would like to begin this address by thanking CII for inviting me to deliver the Keynote address on ‘Labour Reforms at Policy Level.’ I...

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