On completion of 25 years of the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Homework Convention (177), which calls for protection and equal rights to all homeworkers, the ILO have published a comprehensive report about homeworking. Included within this report is a case study of the work that Cividep undertook in collaboration with Homeworkers Worldwide and Pentland Brands.
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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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Cividep in collaboration with Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development (RGNIYD), Sriperumbudur convened a meeting of NGOs working for the cause of young migrant workers. We identified common challenges faced in our work, exchanged lessons, and took a collective pledge for the cause of the most vulnerable workers.
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Laura Ceresna of Cividep India talks to FM4 Vienna on the vulnerabilities faced by young, first-generation industrial workers in the electronics and automobile manufacturing hub of Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu facing exploitative working conditions, a situation exacerbated by lack of information about their rights as workers.
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