Rohit Mani Tiwari

The Karnataka Labour Department’s February 2025 inquiry report concluding that Infosys acted within the Apprenticeship Act and National Apprenticeship training scheme is flawed. The company’s predatory practice is disjointed from the vision with which schemes like NAPS and NATS were brought in.

Last month the Supreme Court laudably recognised that leave and benefit due to maternity formed a part of the fundamental rights, aligned to international human rights standards. But questions on jurisdiction and position of women in informal economy remain crucially unanswered.

The recently notified Haryana Contractual Employment (Security of Service) Act, 2024 secures contract employment of thousands of contract, ad-hoc and outsourced employees in state government bodies. But can it catch up to the changing nature of the employment landscape?

The Supreme Court’s nine-judge Bench set to deliver judgement on the definition of ‘industry’ could limit itself to technical jargon. Or it could take a radically new step towards universal labor justice in an era of precarity for domestic, gig and informal workers.