Tag: salaried class

There is much to lament in India's post-Covid job market, where recovery has been painfully slow. However, official data suggests that in the salaried sector, the participation of religious minorities – Muslims, Sikhs,, and Christians, in that order – has been most severely affected. The Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation's latest PLFS (Periodic Labor Force Survey) – which covers the period from July 2020 to June 2021 and was released earlier this year – at least partially captures the impact of the lockdown, and its immediate aftermath, on salaried jobs across the sector. The survey defined regular/salaried employees as a person who has worked in another's farm or non-farm enterprise (both household and non-household) and, in return, has received salary or wages o...