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India generated record number of jobs in January 2019, shows EPFO data

Critics, however, don't find EPFO data robust as the bump is seen in the data because of the requirement that any establishment employing at least 20 people has to cut provident fund

Urgent need to address threat to jobs due to technology: Niti Aayog CEO

According to Kant, if the threat to employment is not immediately addressed, it can have serious repercussions on India's future generations

61% office goers want commuting time counted as office hours: Survey

The survey suggested that businesses that do not have a flexible workspace policy risk losing out on top talent

As India's employment crisis deepens, fresh engineers struggle to find jobs

They highlight Prime Minister Narendra Modi's difficulty in fulfilling a promise he made weeks after coming to power in 2014: creating millions of jobs by boosting manufacturing

Hiring activity sees 16% growth in Feb led by IT, software industry: Report

IT and software industry has been on a hiring spree in February 2019, registering a growth of 38%

The job crisis and solutions

It would not be wise to be optimistic about the future without preparing in a real sense for job creation

Squandering India's demographic dividend

Looking at the nature of employment among the youth, we find that a disproportionately large share are self-employed

Good news, bad news

More workers receive salaries, but women are working less

Letter to BS: Connectivity needed for growth in formal, informal employment

This inadequacy and a lack of connectivity are responsible for the high level of informal employment currently

US job growth jumps; govt shutdown pushes unemployment rate to 4%

January marked 100 straight months of job gains

Better hike, more jobs may be on offer in first half of 2019: Survey

84% of recruiters are willing to add jobs and fill existing vacancies by June

New jobs jump 48% to touch 15-month high of 7.32 lakh in Nov: EPFO data

Around 73.50 lakh new subscribers were added to social security schemes of the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) from September 2017 to November 2018, the data showed

Over 500 students prep for jobs abroad across sectors under govt initiative

Centre steps up bid to skill workers, sees opportunity in countries with ageing population

Jobs, cash and other Indian headaches

Is it time to take a relook at our economic theories?

ESIC data suggest 16 mn new jobs created in 13 months till Sept: Report

Job creation more than doubled to 973,000 in September, the highest monthly addition since September 2017, compared to 411,000 in the same month last year, as per the EPFO payroll data

India's employability rises to 47%; engineers most employable: Study

India Skills Report says 57 per cent of the final-year engineering graduates were employable, an increase of about five percentage points since last year.

Job offers increased in September 2018

The Indian Railways was seeking to hire 120,000 recruits

India Inc wages and salaries grew 12.6% in Q1; hints of a hiring uptick

Non-bank retail lenders such as Bajaj Finance, Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC), Indiabulls Housing and Shriram Transport Finance topped the chart with 27.6 per cent YoY growth

86% employees feel they waste time in administrative work unrelated to core

Further, the survey reveals that worldwide 53% of employees feel pressure to work longer hours or pick up extra shifts to grow their career

BJP-led govt moved 50 million people out of poverty in 4 year: Modi

Modi said, "we are committed to bringing those left behind in the development race into the mainstream."