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India: Workshop highlights leather workers’ rights

01/10/2015

A workshop to inform leather sector workers of their legal rights has been held in the Unnao, near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, according to The Times of India. A district judge claimed 95% of local workers are not on the books, or part of the ‘unorganised sector’, which affords them fewer employee rights. However, new measures are being adopted to...

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