Indian migrant workers fled lockdown but now factories offer free travel, food and housing to lure them back | South China Morning Post
▻https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3091958/indian-migrant-workers-fled-lockdown-now-factories-offer-free
A mass exodus of workers that followed India’s harsh lockdown
is forcing businesses to review their labour policies as they try to lure the people back with incentives as the economy reopens. While some companies are promising benefits such as free travel tickets, housing and food to draw workers to urban areas, others are managing by hiring new faces from nearby locations. Some are trying a mix of both. “We have offered food and other incentives to woo them back to sites,” said V.V. Benugopal, country manager with Linfox Logistics India, a unit of Australia’s Linfox Group.The company is also skilling a new workforce to mitigate potential delays in return of the migrant labour and arranging buses for workers’ transport, he said. India tried to stop the migration of labour in the initial weeks of its stringent stay-at-home restrictions. However, the daily wage labourers started heading back to their rural homes
after running out of food and cash in cities.
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