January 18, 2023

The New Labour Codes: Ideologically Progressive Yet Practically Regressive

  Labour laws have undergone a major ideological shift in recent times, from imposing a legal ban on employing women during night shifts in factories to legally requiring consent from women to employ them for the night shift.  For years, […]
July 25, 2022

Kerala draft rules on labour codes: Does it liberalise women’s economic opportunities?

Over the past several years, the female labour force participation in Kerala has improved but it still lags behind compared to men’s participation in the labour force. According to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data in 2018-19, the labour […]