In the wake of the COVID-19 epidemic, the Indian labour market has been engulfed in an unprecedented crisis. The livelihood of the majority workers specifically the daily wagers sector has severely been affected, and a significant degree of unpredictability continues to linger over foreseeable future. The pandemic has had a huge impact on the working environment in India, and the purpose of this essay is to analyse the continuing difficulties that have arisen as a result of the pandemic. However, the massive vulnerability of workers in the country, which has been brutally exposed in the current crisis, did not appear overnight and needs to be positioned against the backdrop of the economic reforms, formulated specifically during the preceding six years of the current dispensation at the centre and (mis)management. This is accomplished, although in a very short manner, in the very first substantial portion of the essay. The subsequent segment takes stock mainly of the existing circumstances and worsening state of working communities of the world due to Covid-19 pandemic and how it continues to develop. The issues and challenges that Indian working sector is currently facing are immeasurably tremendous and policy remedies in this context, seems imperative.
Key words: Labour, COVID-19, employment, economic crisis, slowdown, world of work.
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