Labour Law Reforms and Women's Work in India: Assessing the New Labour Codes from a Gender Lens
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Labour Law Reforms and Women's Work in India: Assessing the New Labour Codes from a Gender Lens
Labour Law Reforms and Women's Work in India: Assessing the New Labour Codes from a Gender Lens
Date Written: October 21, 2021
Abstract
The reforms to labour laws during the pandemic, devastating as they are for workers across the country, are not surprising. Since liberalisation, there has been a slow erosion of labour rights in the name of enabling the ‘ease of doing business’ through ‘labour flexibility’. The changes over the years 6 have been gradual, ‘less direct’ and piecemeal, in what Rob Jenkins has termed ‘reform by stealth’; they have also come through changes at the state level, with much of the change facilitated through administrative procedure rather than formal legal reforms, though this has happened too, particularly since the NDA government came to power in the centre in 2014 (Mitchell, Mahy, and Gahan 2014; Shyam Sundar 2018a; 2020a). What has been significantly different in recent years, however, is the process and the scale of the reform agenda.
Keywords: Labour Law, Labour rights, labour law reforms
JEL Classification: P11, P41
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