Union government has failed to use the G20 summit to press for wage protection of Indian overseas workers, lament activists and trade unionists

There have been high-falutin discussions on universalisation of social security in the G20 forums, but the issues of wage theft and wage protection, which affect millions of Indian overseas workers, particularly in the Gulf, have hardly received any attention.
Union government has failed to use the G20 summit to press for wage protection of Indian overseas workers, lament activists and trade unionists
Rejimon Kuttappan

Rejimon Kuttapan is an independent journalist and migrants’ rights researcher. He previously worked in Oman and was deported for reporting the plight of migrant workers and exposing human trafficking of Asian domestic workers when he was the chief reporter of Times of Oman. He has done a fellowship with ILO on labour migration and a Reuters fellowship on human trafficking and forced labour. He has co-authored a book on migrants titled Uncertain Journeys (Speaking Tiger) and authored a book Rowing Between Rooftops on daredevilry of Keralite fishermen who saved thousands from the 2018 Kerala floods. Currently, he has just completed a book on undocumented migrants for Penguin, which will hit the stores soon.

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