Electronics Sector: Workers' Rights & Fair Wages

Reel of the Year: Workers Step into the Spotlight

by Cividep India | Mar 25, 2025 | Annual Report, Business & Human Rights, Electronics, Garment, Leather, News | 0

Cividep’s 2024 Annual Report highlights a year of deepening worker engagement, advocacy, and digital empowerment. From social media training for electronics sector workers in Tamil Nadu to large-scale community events and policy-driven research, the report showcases efforts to amplify worker voices, promote fair labour practices, and drive systemic change. As India’s manufacturing sector grows, Cividep continues to bridge the gap between economic progress and worker realities, ensuring access to knowledge, networks, and advocacy for better working conditions.

What 2024 Taught Us About Worker Voices and Stakeholder Engagement

by Mitali Moharir | Dec 18, 2024 | Business & Human Rights, Electronics, Garment, Leather | 0

Cividep India, now in its 24th year, continues to champion ethical labour practices and improved working conditions across global supply chains. In 2024, the organisation marked significant milestones, including the launch of the Workers’ Observatory, a platform amplifying worker voices, and the release of The Home & The World of Work, a report on gender and labour in Karnataka’s apparel industry. With initiatives spanning garment, electronics, and leather sectors, Cividep combines research, advocacy, and community engagement to address issues like low wages, exploitative conditions, and human rights risks. Looking ahead, Cividep remains committed to driving meaningful change for workers across industries.

7 Worker Stories from 2024 That Reveal the Realities of Our Workplaces

by Cividep India | Dec 18, 2024 | Business & Human Rights, Electronics, Garment, Leather | 0

In 2024, stories from women workers revealed the harsh realities of their workplaces, from exploitation and fear to resilience and solidarity. Cividep India, working with thousands of low-wage women workers across garments, leather, electronics, and plantations, brought these voices to light. Amid challenges like production torture, shopfloor abuse, and financial precarity, workers are finding their voices, advocating for fair treatment, and building collective strength. These powerful accounts highlight the urgent need for systemic change and celebrate moments of hope and resistance.

Roundtable Highlights Worker Participation as Key to Improving Labour Rights in Tamil Nadu’s Electronics Sector

by Cividep India | Nov 16, 2024 | Electronics | 0

Cividep India and GIZ partner co-hosted a multi-stakeholder roundtable recently that highlighted worker Participation as Key to Improving Labour Rights in Tamil Nadu’s Electronics Sector. The speakers said effective stakeholder engagement, especially that of workers, will help tackle critical human rights risks facing electronics industry workers in Tamil Nadu

When 750+ Workers Came Together To Celebrate Independence Day

by Cividep India | Sep 20, 2024 | Electronics | 0

Scores of electronics factory workers from Kanchipuram celebrated Independence Day, fostering community spirit through music, dance, & unity. Cividep India’s Youth Sangamam event helped them take a break from routine factory work, and escape social isolation for a few hours.

Field Diary May 2024

by Cividep India | May 31, 2024 | Business & Human Rights, Electronics, Garment, Leather | 0

This issue of Field Diary delves into inspiring stories of worker empowerment and solidarity across industries. A Cividep -India Labourline team rescued expolited migrant workers at a mill in Tamil Nadu. Meanwhile Worker Education Enabled Electronics Workers in Tamil Nadu In Accessing their Right To Health Protection , While Leather Homeworkers Stood Together To Demand Fair Pay. Also Read Learnings From A Cividep Team Conducting In-Factory Research on Occupational Health of Its Garment Workers.

Field Diary March 2024

by Cividep India | Mar 13, 2024 | Business & Human Rights, Electronics, Garment, Leather | 0

This issue of Field Diary delves into inspiring stories of worker solidarity across industries. While a homeworkers’ collective in Tamil Nadu’s leather industry is challenging unfair wages, garment factory workers in Bengaluru address issues in accessing social security claims. We also see electronics factory workers responding to exploitation by dubious contractors.

What’s In The 2023 Field Diary? Worker Stories of Struggles & Hope

by Sandhya Soman | Dec 5, 2023 | Business & Human Rights, Electronics, Garment, Leather | 0

A roundup of Cividep 2023 field diary stories that provide a glance into worker lives with bite-sized stories from the factory, household, worker communities, and more.

Field Diary October 2023

by Cividep India | Nov 17, 2023 | Business & Human Rights, Electronics, Garment, Leather | 0

This issue of Field Diary explores how workers continue facing mounting challenges across industries. In the garment sector, many workers are increasingly shifting to piece rate work due to flexible schedules and better earnings. Electronics workers in Sriperumbudur grapple with layoffs and lack of permanent employment. Meanwhile, Cividep’s partner organisations continue to encourage the spirit of worker solidarity through new ways such as building more compact alliances of workers through SHGs.

Field Diary September 2023

by Cividep India | Oct 25, 2023 | Business & Human Rights, Electronics, Garment, Leather | 0

This issue of Field Diary explores how workers continue facing mounting challenges across industries. The garment sector grapples with stagnant wages and potential extended work hours due to new legislation. Electronics workers in Sriperumbudur anticipate festive bonuses, often denied or substituted with household items. Layoffs in electronics and shoe factories highlight the instability of contract work and the gradual erosion of job security. Many workers, despite years of service, find themselves without due compensation or face issues accessing their Provident Fund. Cividep India has been stepping in, addressing health concerns and offering training sessions to empower workers in navigating these challenges.

Field Diary August 2023

by Cividep India | Sep 20, 2023 | Business & Human Rights, Electronics, Garment, Leather | 0

This edition of Field Diary is all about the Cividep team and partners reaching out to women workers – using technology on the field, going to far-flung villages to meet workers, and offering counselling support to deal with work-related and personal troubles.

Field Diary July 2023

by Cividep India | Aug 17, 2023 | Business & Human Rights, Electronics, Garment, Leather | 0

This latest edition of the Cividep Field Diary is all about women lifting each other up – from mobilizing fellow workers for awareness meetings in the community, discussing the interconnectedness of health, gender, and work; the barriers to sustaining careers in the factory, and much more.

Category: Electronics