INTERNATIONAL LABOUR STANDARDS AS CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR DECENT WORK AGENDA IN DIGITAL INDIA

Abstract

CSR, the Corporate Social Responsibility has been accepted widely in India with great enthusiasm. The inception of CSR in new Companies Act, 2013, clearly gives the mandate to the industries with great turn over to practice CSR for the development of society and social welfare. National CSR policy and CSR portals displaying the industries participation in the community. A successful five years’ journey of CSR since its inception has been portrayed as the duties of ‘corporate citizenship’. The duties have become mandate. Now the concept CSR of India has to include many important aspects due to the transformation in the idea of industry. Any transformation in the industry will result in the loss of traditional and conventional jobs and creation of new set of jobs. With the advent of the fourth industrial   and digital revolution in the globalisation period there is every possibility of loss of jobs by millions of people around the world and India is not an exception. It is rather challenging situation in India as it is a land of masses. The complex issue is the attitude of National and Multinational companies towards the labourers and their standards in the new automation arena with new skills. This article addresses one of the new challenges of accepting the International labour standards as CSR. The International Labour Organisation with systematic framework has given the guidelines to promote labour standards as one of the CSR. This is well supported by International Labour Organisation and other United Nations agencies. India has to bring the labour standards as one of the CSR by reflecting the ideals of UN and ILO for decent work agenda in digital India.