Labor Rights Regulating Migrant Workers in India

Abstract

According to WHO reports, the COVID-19 pandemic, which initially came to light in December 2019, left the entire world in an unprecedented state of crisis and lingering unpredictability. It resulted in numerous deaths, a generalized economic downturn, unemployment, quarantines, an inevitable lockdown, and a travel ban that was put in place internationally as a necessary measure to combat the pandemic. India was among the first nations to impose the lockdown on a trial to control the COVID-19 pandemic, but the attempt was unsuccessful, and the country soon joined the list of those most adversely affected by many pandemics.  This work aims to examine the deficiencies in the Indian ministry's lockdown plans to have a look into the errors made by the government that led to the failure of the lockdown of India and further subjected the country's migrant labor force to intolerable hardships. The manuscript clears that there are serious violations of the essential and economic privileges granted to domestic migrant workers along with other laborers under labor regulations as well as the Indian constitution during on COVID  lockdown period and that the state's actions during  the COVID lockdown period.  During the lockdown made the situation of the migrant workers worse. To move toward a labor-management architecture that can respond to an intersection of challenges that comes from informal communities, mobility, and social marginalization experienced by rural-urban migrants, it addresses fundamental tensions and deadlocks in the labor reform process. This will enable equitable and open growth in cities.