Labour Market

An Icrier study finds that India's women workforce nearly doubled between 2017-18 and 2025, but gains were concentrated in insecure jobs, with shorter hours and a wider pay gap

Women face multiple employment-related constraints

At the Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit 2026, economists Sajjid Chinoy and Soumya Kanti Ghosh called for labour-intensive manufacturing, better skilling and a balanced approach to AI

US employers added just 29,000 jobs in September, well below expectations, while the unemployment rate rose to 4.2 per cent, weakening the case for an October rate hike

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Nationwide survey of 1,000 platform workers finds gaps in insurance and safety training, while extreme heat, road accidents and long working hours add to risks

In building the first city-level portrait of urban work, the National Statistics Office has taken a step towards the evidence-based view that sound urban policy depends on

An open letter, signed by Nobel laureates, tech leaders from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, and economists, warns AI could reshape the economy faster than the Industrial Revolution

India's million-plus cities offer higher wages and better job quality, but unemployment remains similar to other urban areas, with sharp gender pay gaps across cities

EAC-PM Chairman S Mahendra Dev said weak labour demand, rather than social norms, has become the key barrier to raising women's labour force participation in India

Studies show remote work is responsible for nearly two-thirds of the unemployment gap between college graduates under 29 and older graduates

The first PLFS report on million-plus cities highlights stronger urban employment and wages but reveals wide disparities in female participation and manufacturing pay

But urban female joblessness rose sharply in several states

India participated in a Global Coalition for Social Justice meeting in Geneva, reaffirming its engagement with the ILO-led initiative on labour rights and social protection

Anthropic on Wednesday joined growing calls for the artificial intelligence industry to find ways to cushion people from the technology's disruptions, announcing an initial USD 200 million investment to research AI's impact on jobs and the economy. Alongside new policy proposals from the maker of the Claude chatbot, Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei published an essay on his personal website that expanded on his position that the government should promise economic support for those financially impacted by AI. The technology could produce much larger disruptions to the labour market than previous technological advancements, Amodei wrote, and those disruptions could last longer. "The key challenge in such a world won't be incentivizing growth, but finding a way for everyone to share in the benefits," Amodei wrote. The announcement comes on the heels of Anthropic rival OpenAI on Monday outlining goals that included ensuring gains from the technology are "widely shared". OpenAI

Air pollution, traffic congestion, flooding and public health events are increasingly affecting hiring, workforce resilience and business operations across sectors

SBI Research analysis of PLFS 2025 data found women-headed households are associated with higher regular wage employment and lower dependence on casual labour

US jobless claims rose slightly last week but remained below expectations, signalling continued resilience in the labour market despite AI-driven layoffs and global risks

Millions of them don't have clear job contracts and safety benefits

The EPFO and ESI have resisted radical reinvention since 1991, illustrating how self-interested bureaucracies preserve their own interests by creating improbable scenarios of chaos