Status Of Decent Work In The Urban Informal Sector Of Punjab

Abstract

Without rural-urban migration of labour, no country can reach the heights of development. However, with urbanization comes the informalization of the labour force as the formal sector fails to give employment to all the labour coming to urban areas in search of employment. The informal sector is crippled with so many problems like low job security, low employment security, low-income security, low representation security, and low basic security. So, in the present scenario, it becomes very difficult to achieve the objective of “Decent Work for all” as suggested by the International Labour Organization for almost all the nations and India is no exception. Rather, India is a country where about 90% of the workers are employed in the informal sector which makes the situation even worse. Still, the Indian government has managed to take some steps toward improving the country's decent work status. This paper attempts to measure the decent work status of labour employed in the urban informal sector in Ludhiana and thus contribute to the existing measures which have been devised till now for the same.