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ALF invites you to join us for a Friday Forum on the socio-political implications of the thematic and simplistic codification of India’s various sector-specific labour laws—each born of historic struggles by the organised working class, facilitated by Clifton D'Rozario.
The cumulative impacts of the four new labour codes—curtailment of workers’ participation, the centralisation of wage regulation, and accelerated informalisation, etc—are justified in the interest of “ease of doing business”.
However, a deeper reading of these codes along with the recent dismantling of MGNREG Act, 2005, by the VB-G RAM (G) Act, 2025, signify a broader ideological shift—explicitly stated as the Union Government’s guiding principle in the Shram Shakti Niti, 2025, which frames labour not as a means of livelihood, but as a contribution to a larger order of “dharma” (righteous duty), reducing the worker to a cog in a cycle of “social creation.”
In this talk, Clifton will situate the new labour codes within the intersecting politics of class, caste, gender, and region. He will highlight how precarity is not an economic accident, but a deliberate state-market strategy—one that systematically weakens workers’ bargaining power and expands informality, potentially affecting nearly everyone.
About the Speaker: Clifton D’Rozario is a prominent labour law practitioner and the National Vice President of the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU).
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