Centre for Labour Studies

The Centre has been set up as an interdisciplinary research unit to address various issues that define regulation and governance in employment relations.

It seeks to primarily engage with five issues: labour law and regulation; trade unions and collective bargaining; labour law governance, in Karnataka; understanding employment relations and structure of industry in select sectors of informal and formal employment and precarious work and forced labour. In connection with this engagement, CLS has undertaken research, held seminars and workshops and engaged with trade unions, labour economists, academicians and labour department on specific issues of rights of workers.

Centre Co-Directors: Dr. Saurabh Bhattacharjee, Vijetha Ravi