Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
In 2014-15, the latest year for which the numbers are available, as much as 93.9% of the addition to the workforce in the formal manufacturing sector was hired through contractors. That means these people weren't directly employed by the manufacturing companies. At a time when the government is talking of the benefits of formalizing the informal sector, what we're seeing is the increasing informalization of the workforce in the organized sector.
