Page 34 - Employment

India needs jobs, not dole

India cannot afford to allow its policy to be constrained by failed dogmas about government deficits and debt, writes Srinivas Thiruvadanthai

Guaranteeing urban jobs

There is an urgent need to strengthen urban local bodies and re-imagine their functions as drivers of job creation, skill-building and ecologically sustainable development

Collapse in farm jobs reason behind rising unemployment, shows NSSO data

In 2017-18, only 39.7 per cent of rural men and 17.4 per cent of rural men in the working age were employed in agriculture

Govt's performance below expectations on jobs, health care, agri: Survey

The survey was conducted between October and December, 2018

Job creation dips 6.9% in January to 1.12 million, says ESIC data

During September 2017 to January 2019, as many as 2.08 crore new subscribers joined the ESIC scheme, the data showed

India second globally in job optimism among senior executives: Survey

Following Brazil, around 57% of Indian senior management executives expect job growth

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?