Labour laws end the age of apartheid

In 1984, both of us were in school, probably studying how India’s big and growing population was a curse as well as an important cause of our tragic poverty. But in August that year, trade unions scored a huge victory for their members by driving an amendment to the already toxic Chapter V-B of the Industrial Disputes Act (IDA). Section 25G of IDA now states that if workers must be retrenched, employers “shall retrench the workman who was the last person to be employed in that category”.

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