UP to fight Unemployment with new Labor Laws?

May 8, 2020

Uttar Pradesh Government exempted all labor laws but three. With all the migrant labors returning back to the state and economic slowdown due to Coronavirus pandemic. They have been introduced as ‘Uttar Pradesh Temporary Exemption from Certain Labour Laws Ordinance, 2020’. The laws that have been exempted are Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976; Employee Compensation Act, 1923; Building and Other Construction Workers Act, 1996.

What has come up as a surprise though is the request made by the Chief Ministers of four other states; Punjab, Karnataka, Harayana and Gujarat, to not airlift the migrant workers since they form a big part of their respective state economies.

Yogi Government though promises employment to all the workers returning back home with great difficulties after lockdown so as to prevent them from migrating again. UP being highly populated see the largest population of migrant workers all over India. To prevent this from happening in a future free from the fear of COVID-19 there are steps the state government has planned. Multinational giants like FEDx, Adobe have been invited to set their offices in the state.

Apart from that laborers are being brought back home and a committee has been set up for representation of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. The government plans on creating around 15 lakh jobs from the aforementioned department post lockdown.

With the change in labour laws and new policies being introduced, Uttar Pradesh government plans on generating employment to stop people from migrating and contribute in the growth of the state. But with economic slowdown and with zero percent growth rate for the financial year 2021, it would be interesting to see how they reach the finishing line.

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Climate Change can gulp 80 million jobs by 2030

Sugat Srivastava

July 2, 2019

Climate change can chew 80 million jobs by 2030. International Labour Organization (ILO) under United Nations projected the dreadful outcome based on their recent studies. The main reason is the increase in temperature.

A temperature rise of 1.5C by the end of century could lead to a 2.2 per cent drop in working hours – equal to 80 million full-time jobs – costing the global economy US$2.4 trillion, according to projections by the U.N. International Labour Organization (ILO).

“The impact of heat stress on labor productivity is a serious consequence of climate change, which adds to other adverse impacts such as changing rain patterns, raising sea levels and loss of biodiversity,” said ILO’s Catherine Saget.

The World Health Organization has said heat stress linked to climate change is likely to cause 38,000 extra deaths a year worldwide between 2030 and 2050.

Heat stress occurs when the body absorbs more heat than is tolerable. Extreme heat can cause heat-related illnesses, such as heat stroke and exhaustion, increase mortality, and exacerbate existing health conditions.

Agricultural workers – especially women, who make up the bulk of the 940 million laborers in the sector – will be most affected, the ILO said, accounting for about 60 per cent of all working hours lost due to heat stress by 2030.

If global temperatures rise as predicted, the construction industry will account for about 19 per cent of lost working hours, with the poorest countries in Southeast Asia and west Africa worst hit, the ILO added.

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UP to fight Unemployment with new Labor Laws?

Climate Change can gulp 80 million jobs by 2030