We discuss the concept of a workers’ living wage in the context of tea plantations in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, and compare existing living wage calculations in the light of learnings from a social sustainability study conducted jointly by Cividep India and Finnwatch.
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A study by Cividep India, Homeworkers Worldwide, and Ethical Trading Initiative identified adverse labour rights risks and impacts in factories and informal supply chains of leather goods production clusters in India. Companies need to conduct more comprehensive due diligence, involving civil society organizations, in industries such as the export-oriented leather sector in India, with complex and largely unmapped supply chains.
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COVID-19 has exacerbated the precarity of working conditions for the leather home workers of Tamil Nadu- with less work, delayed payments, and further scope of exploitation. On International Homeworkers Day 2020, they got together to release a charter of basic demands including formal recognition, minimum wages, and social security. We examine the impacts of COVID on their lives and livelihoods.
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Plantation workers of the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu form the backbone of India’s world-famous export-oriented tea industry. We reflect on how they still endure low minimum wage standards, bad housing, and healthcare facilities, roadblocks to effective unionization, double vulnerability as migrants, and overall lack of access to a decent quality of life.
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Cividep India reflects on the indelible work of the late Jane Tate, a founding member of Home Workers Worldwide (HWW), for advancing the cause of home-workers all over the world, and the past opportunities we’ve had in working and learning from her.
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