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On August 20, a nine-judge Bench of the Supreme Court of India delivered a judgment on the correctness of the ruling in Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board vs A. Rajappa (BWSSB) (1978). In that judgment, Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer had laid down what was called the “Triple Test” on what counts as an “industry”…
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Factory workers protest in Noida. File | Photo Credit: PTI This year, May Day arrives not as a commemoration, but as a diagnosis. Within a single fortnight last month, two events clarified the state of Indian labour more sharply than any official review. On April 10, thousands of garment workers in Noida’s Phase 2 Hosiery…
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