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EY Employee's Death: Are India’s Labour Laws Enabling Workers' Exploitation? | WION Decodes

The death of 26-year-old Anna Sebastian Perayil, a Chartered Accountant employed at Ernst & Young, allegedly due to 'work pressure' has triggered a broader discussion on exploitative work environments in India. But what is being portrayed and viewed as a societal issue of work-life balance, is in reality a question of what our labour laws facilitate. Are India's labour laws designed for exploitation? Are they too ambiguous to demand accountability from corporate firms?