IIM Kozhikode Launches Centre for Employment Relations and Labour Studies; Check Details Here

New Delhi: As per the latest updates, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode has recently launched an interdisciplinary think tank, Centre for Employment Relations and Labour Studies (CERLS) on the campus ground. 

As per IIM Kozhikode, the newly launched center aims to help the workers and economically weaker sections in their transition from the informal to formal economy. This initiative will create sustainable organisations through cooperative employment relations.

Director of IIM Kozhikode, Prof Debashis Chatterjee said, “The larger aim of this centre would be to mobilise ideas from fellow academia, thought leaders, government, and corporations to prevent formalisation of formal jobs while championing sustainable enterprises”.

In addition to helping the workers, the center will work with organisations to ensure fair labour standards in the economy. The CERLS was launched in the presence of Manoranjan Dhal, a Professor in the Human Resource Management Areas and IIM Kozhikode officials.

The Centre for Employment Relations and Labour Studies (CERLS) of IIM Kozhikode Plans will organise regular labour conferences every year with the goal to reflect on labour issues in the country. The first conference is scheduled to be held in January 2024.

Speaking on this occasion, Manoranjan Dhal shared that the increasing technological encroachment in work is the reason for the monumental gap in the quality of life between sections of the working class. With this initiative, the institute aims to ease the gap and help the weaker section

"Further, mass downsizing, precarious employment conditions for the non-standard workers, and amplification of grievances of the migrant labour, construction workers as well as gig workers have increased in recent years. These are the very reasons that propelled the thought of establishing this centre," he said.

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