Kolkata leather industry employs around sixty five  thousand workers, yet  the overall working condition in most of the leather units, even in the much hyped 'Calcutta Leather Complex' seem to be not even closer to t"he minimumprescribed standards at per different labour regulations. Thejob security in the industry is also reported to be appalling. The present research has been carried out at 'Calcutta Leather Complex: an 1100 acres land based leather industry complex, located at Bantala, at the eastern fringe of the city, the largest concentration of organized leather units in Kolkata. Based on the structured questionnaire based interviews conducted on a randomly chosen sample of 400 workers, the paper attempts to measure the magnitude of different job security perception across the categories of workers and also attempted to recommend necessary initiatives to address the plight of the workers. Standard statistical tools like correlation, regression, paired t-test and chi-square test have been used to test the hypotheses pertaining to the present study.

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Bose, I. & Sampath, S.(2015). Workers’ perception to job security: an empirical study on the organized leather industry in Kolkata, India. Skyline Business Journal, Volume  11, No 1,pp 12 -21.