This report narrates how the contract labour system ensures that hundreds of contract workers employed in different occupations in JNU – construction workers, safai karamcharis, library staff, mess workers, etc – are being denied even statutory minimum wage, which is in any case pegged too low and is nothing more than a ’subsistence’ wage. In addition, wherever one could examine their working conditions, they were found too absymal and devoid of the most basic requirements.
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