HR Interventions for Improving Working Conditions, Labor Rights, Wages, and Social Security in the Informal Sector

  • Rajesh Singh Assistant Professor (Contract), Department of Management Studies, Kanpur, UP, India
  • Akriti Singh Research Scholar, Management Studies Department, M.M.M.U.T., Gorakhpur, UP, India
  • D.B.Singh Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, KIPM-College of Management, GIDA, Gorakhpur
  • Raunit Raj Asstt. Marketing Manager, Solution Wagon, Zirakpur
Keywords: Labour right, Social security, Informal sector workers, Economic growth, Community-based initiatives, Human resource interventions, Legal frameworks

Abstract

This study attempts to propose a bottom-up community-based legislation of worker welfare approach using a top-down approach.
Therefore, it hopes to create a wholesome framework. It also aims to study the impact of, informality, weak enforcement and structural
inequality through the lens of international labour standards and constitutional jurisprudence.
The aim of this paper is to examine the possibilities of human resource interventions in the informal sector to make improvements in the
working conditions with the aim of protecting labour rights, increasing wages and extending social security.
In many developing countries, the sector uncovered by law and well-established institutions, i.e. the work force is the most significant
contributor to economic growth. As a result, informal workers suffer the most from exploitation, unpaid wages, unsafe working
conditions and financial insecurity.
The exclusions create a significant human rights problem as actual denial of just wages, decent working conditions and social protections
is often a threat, for example. There are now gross violations of basic standards of work for many informal workers despite the very
existence of laws to ban them.

Published
2026-09-08
How to Cite
Rajesh Singh, Akriti Singh, D.B.Singh, & Raunit Raj. (2026). HR Interventions for Improving Working Conditions, Labor Rights, Wages, and Social Security in the Informal Sector, 22(01), 15-27. https://doi.org/10.21844/mijia.22.1.2