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In its advisory opinion last month, the International Court of Justice augmented the right to strike to a core labour right under Convention 87. Its reliance on ‘relevant rules of international law’ in the ruling is a positive step towards bringing international law under a more unified system.

India’s recent clampdown on protesting workers evidences the slow criminalisation of the right to strike. Could a new decision of the International Court of Justice be a powerful instrument in the hands of lawyers and workers to push for legislative and constitutional reform in the country?

The violence in Noida was not exceptional. It was the foreseeable consequence of studied silence towards worker grievances and a statutory regime that has made collective bargaining structurally ineffective and strike action procedurally impossible.

The elimination of Labour Courts under the Industrial Relations Code not only fails to address the pathologies surrounding access to justice for workers, it may end up clogging the adjudication system with both individual and collective disputes ending up in one single forum.

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.

The government's plan to implement all four Labour Codes simultaneously is legally shoddy, democratically suspect, and premature. Here are twelve reasons why.

As the Centre prepares to notify rules under all four labour codes, the workers most in need of protection discover that consolidation has come at the cost of their rights — and that the new law offers them less than the one it replaced.

The Supreme Court should refrain from interfering with the Bangalore Water Supply’s interpretative approach which, for five decades, has provided a coherent, accessible framework to define industries.