Second Indian state enshrines the “right to sit” for retail staff in law, ordering store owners to provide seating for employees during the working day
People walk at a crowded market in the old quarters of Delhi, India. Picture: REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis/File Photo
“Even sitting on the floor if there were no customers wasn’t allowed,” she added, asking to use a pseudonym. “This has been a long pending demand,” said M. Dhanalakshmi, Tamil Nadu state convener of the Working Women’s co-ordination Committee, a wing of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions. Tamil Nadulabour secretary R. Kirlosh Kumar said teams of inspectors would visit shops to guarantee compliance.
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