Stand Up for the Right to Sit: The Case of Women Workers in India
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Women working in the textile and jewelry showrooms in the Indian state of Kerala have recently won a long-fought battle for their ‘Right to sit’ in 2018. These women mostly employed as salesgirls in textile and jewelry retailing show-rooms in Kerala had been battling several workplace issues like long working hours, low wages, job insecurity and above all denial of ‘right to sit’. This paper discusses their problems and challenges along with the working conditions and absence of unionism in the informal retail sector in India. The discussion is made in the light of existing regulations in India and labor standards of the ILO on the subject of occupational health. It is suggested that existing occupational health related legislation and facilities are expanded and extended to workers in the informal sector in India.
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