Sharath Babu
I Sharath Babu is Reader at the Post-Graduate Department of Studies in Law, Karnataka University, Dharwad. He was Fellow, Centre for Labour Studies, National Law School of India University, Bangalore from 2004 to 2006. He has a Ph.D in the area of norms related to fixation and quantification of the minimum wages for sweated labour under the Minimum Wages Act of 1948. He was appointed Chief Investigator by the Ministry of Labour, Government of Karnataka in 2004 to study the contract labour...See more
I Sharath Babu is Reader at the Post-Graduate Department of Studies in Law, Karnataka University, Dharwad. He was Fellow, Centre for Labour Studies, National Law School of India University, Bangalore from 2004 to 2006. He has a Ph.D in the area of norms related to fixation and quantification of the minimum wages for sweated labour under the Minimum Wages Act of 1948. He was appointed Chief Investigator by the Ministry of Labour, Government of Karnataka in 2004 to study the contract labour system in Karnataka, for which he submitted a comprehensive report in 2005. He prepared and presented a model for the Unorganized Sector Workers (Regulation of Employment, Welfare and Social Security) Bill, 2005 (for the Ministry of Labour, Government of India) in collaboration with the National Centre for Labour. He has published a number of research papers in various journals on the subject of minimum wages, contract labour claims and on issues pertaining to workers in the unorganised sector. See less
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