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Sitting pretty? Indian shop workers win the right to a chair

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Chennai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation On her feet at work for 10 hours each day,Indian shop assistant S Lakshmi lumbers home at the end of her shift to nurse her aching legs and swollen ankles. But relief may be in sight. Tamil Nadu became last month the second Indian state to enshrine the “right to sit” for retail […]