When Will Leather Brands Pay Living Wages?
Pradeepan Ravi explains why brands shouldn’t ignore international standards on wages.
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Topic: Covid-19
Cividep India’s rapid response relief project for COVID-affected garment workers
With APPI’s support, Cividep launched a relief project for alleviating some of the distress that garment workers have faced due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Workers whose factories had shut down or were employed for only a few days in a month, either as piece-rate workers or regular workers, were allocated cash transfers. We document our approach, the results achieved, and learnings from the period of extreme distress faces by workers.
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Leather workers of Tamil Nadu: First-wave induced economic shocks and the need for sustained relief
This article highlights the main findings of a research study conducted by Cividep and its partners INKOTA, Sudwind, and SLD to assess the impact of the unprecedented lockdowns in 2020 on the lives of leather sector workers of Ambur, Tamil Nadu. Cividep’s relief measures to help alleviate the workers’ distress are also described here.
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Home-based work in the time of Covid-19 for women in Ambur
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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Pandemic-induced layoffs in Tamil Nadu’s leather industry
Cividep India’s Pradeepan Ravi gives inputs in this news story on the alarming rate of post-pandemic layoffs happening in Tamil Nadu’s leather industry, and how workers, especially women, are struggling to cope.
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