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98.38 lakh employees benefitted through PMRPY: Labour Minister

1.21 lakh establishments benefitted from PMRPY

Labour Code is at pre-legislative stage: Santosh Kumar Gangwar

Provisions of the draft Code have been discussed with stakeholders in various Tripartite Meetings and then finalized

Cash-strapped HAL's 'best' scientists will move to Anil Ambani group: Rahul

Congress president Rahul Gandhi Monday alleged that the "best" engineers and scientists from cash-strapped HAL will be forced to move to the Anil Ambani group that has the Rafale fighter jet contract. This will happen as Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) does not have enough money to pay salaries to its employees and Ambani needs its talent to deliver on his contract, Gandhi said. "That HAL doesn't have enough cash to pay salaries, isn't surprising. Anil Ambani has Rafale. He now needs HAL's brilliant talent pool to deliver on his contracts. Without salaries, HAL's best engineers and scientists will be forced to move to AA's venture," he said on Twitter. Gandhi said this while citing a report whereby cash-strapped HAL has taken loans to pay salaries to its employees.

Stop making 'jumla' of jobless: Sena to Modi

Stating that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claims of creating more jobs have been "proved completely hollow" by the Centre for Monitoring of Indian Economy (CMIE), the Shiv Sena on Monday asked him to stop making a 'jumla' (joke) of the jobless millions in the country.

Flights scrapped as Berlin airports brace for Monday strike

Hundreds of German passengers were facing travel upheaval on Monday with security staff at Berlin's two airports set to walk out in a pay dispute. The action, called by the powerful Verdi union at the German capital's Tegel and Schoenefeld airports, is due to start at 05:00 am (0400 GMT) and end at 8:45 am. Some 80 flights are expected to be affected, according to DPA news agency, mostly at the city's main Tegel airport. German flagship carrier Lufthansa said it was cancelling four flights on its Berlin-Frankfurt route and four more between Berlin and Munich. The roughly 850 passengers booked on those flights could use their tickets to travel by train instead, Lufthansa added. "We regret that our passengers have to start the new year with disruptions," Lufthansa board member Detlef Kayser told DPA. The strike comes after Verdi, which represents some 23,000 airport security workers nationwide, said talks with the BDLS employers' association were deadlocked. The union wants to see wages

Airports seeing rise in security screeners calling off work

The federal agency tasked with guaranteeing US airport security acknowledged an increase in the number of its employees calling off work during the partial government shutdown. Employees of the Transportation Security Administration are expected to work without pay during the shutdown because their jobs are considered essential. The TSA said in a statement Friday that call outs that began over the holiday period have increased. The agency did not say how many of its employees have called out, but it said the call outs have had "minimal impact given that there are 51,739 employees supporting the screening process." The statement said wait times "may be affected" but so far "remain well within TSA standards." "TSA is closely monitoring the situation," the agency statement said. "Security effectiveness will not be compromised." The Department of Homeland Security and President Donald Trump pushed back Saturday on suggestions that the absences represented a "sickout" that was having ...

UP: 40 lakh govt workers to go on strike from Feb 6

40 lakh government workers in Uttar Pradesh will go on strike from February 6, said Harikishor Tiwari, convenor of the old pension restoration forum.The strike, which is being held ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, is being supported by many worker organisations, Tiwari added.The demand of the workers is to restore the old pension schemes. Furthermore, staffers alleged that they have been misled by the government officials for the last two months.On December 12, scores of Karnataka government employees took to streets in Belgaum city to protest against the New Pension Scheme (NPS) and demanded that it should be scrapped. Thousands of agitating employees also pressed for the earliest renewal of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS).Two weeks after this, around 10 lakh employees of nine public sector banks went on a nationwide strike against the merger of Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank with Bank of Baroda. They sought their salary revision.The wage revision of the bank employees has been due since ...

Delhi invokes ESMA ahead of power employees' strike

Declaring the supply and distribution of electricity as "essential" services, Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal on Friday invoked the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) ahead of a proposed strike by the electricity employees in the national capital.

US adds 312K new jobs in Dec 2018

The US saw 312,000 new jobs being added to its economy in December 2018, according to an official employment report released Friday. "GREAT JOBS NUMBERS JUST ANNOUNCED!" President Donald Trump tweeted soon after the Bureau of Labour Statistics in its monthly employment report for December said that non-farm payroll employment increased by 312,000 in the country and the unemployment rate was at 3.9 per cent. The unemployment rate rose by 0.2 percentage point to 3.9 per cent in December, but that was due to more workers joining the job hunt, the report said. A year earlier, the jobless rate was 4.1 per cent and the number of unemployed persons was 6.6 million, as against 6.3 million in 2018. Attributing the job growth to Trump's policies, the Labour Secretary Alexander Acosta said the American economy surpassed 150 million jobs for the first time ever. Following strong jobs data, major US stock indexes opened higher with the Dow industrials recording more than 300 points, The wall ...

WB employees can't take leaves on TU strike days next week

The West Bengal government on Friday announced that its employees cannot avail casual leaves or half day leaves on Tuesday and Wednesday next when central trade unions have called for a nationwide general strike. No leave will also be allowed on the day preceding the two-day strike or following it, a government notification said on Friday. "It has been decided that no casual leave for absence either in the first half of the day or in the second half or for the whole day nor any other leave shall be granted to any employee on the said dates," the notification signed by Additional Chief Secretary H K Dwivedi read. An employee would lose his or her salary for being absent on those days "unless such absence was due to hospitalisation of the employee, bereavement in the family, severe illness and absence continuing prior to January 4, 2019," it said. Ten central trade unions have called for a nationwide general strike on January 8-9 against the "anti-people" policies of the .

EPFO data shows huge no of jobs created in Maha in 2018: CM

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said Friday the state was leading in the country in terms of job creation, as shown by the data released by the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO). Maharashtra accounted for the highest number of EPFO accounts opened in the country last year, he said. He was addressing 'Youth Empowerment Summit' organised by the Fortune Foundation here. "As per the statistics released by the EPFO on January 2, about 80 lakh new EPFO accounts were opened in the last year, and Maharashtra had the largest share, with 25 percent of these accounts being opened in the state," he said. This shows a huge number of jobs were created in the state last year, he claimed. The chief minister admitted that unemployment is a major issue as the country has a huge young population, but "a lot of job opportunities are being generated in our economy." China was the fastest-growing economy earlier but in last three years India has left it behind, Fadnavis

Why was Rahul 'silent' when Kamal Nath spoke against workers from UP, Bihar: Smriti Irani

Union minister Smriti Irani Friday asked why Congress chief Rahul Gandhi was "silent" when Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath had said that people from UP and Bihar get employment in MP at the cost of the local population. "Why was Rahul silent when Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath spoke against people from UP and Bihar working in that state? How will he look into the eyes of people in Amethi today?" she said, ahead of Gandhi's visit to his Lok Sabha constituency. Irani was on a day's visit to Amethi, about 140km from the state capital Lucknow. For her visit, local BJP leaders had put up posters seeking an explanation from the Congress president on Kamal Nath's statement on workers from UP and Bihar. One of the posters carried a collage of newspaper clippings of his statement. Similarly for Gandhi's visit later in the day, Congress workers have put up posters praising him over the party's victories in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. "Teen rajyon ki jeet ke ...

Unemployment biggest problem facing country: Gadkari

Unemployment is the biggest of the major problems facing the country, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari Fiday said, adding that there was a "difference" between employment and jobs. He was addressing a youth empowerment summit organised by Fortune Foundation here. Speaking on employment generation, Gadkari said, "To address the problem of unemployment, not everyone can get jobs. Because there is a difference between employment and jobs. There are limitations to jobs and therefore creation of employment is the main part of the financial policy of any government." "There is a need to think about how to create employment opportunities in rural and urban areas of the country," Gadkari added. He claimed that the Maharashtra government had managed to create jobs in Vidarbha, particularly Nagpur in the last four years, and cited Multi-modal International Cargo Hub and Airport (MIHAN), the Butibori MIDC area and Nagpur metro rail as examples. "Chief Minister (Devendra) Fadnavis and .

UAW sues GM over temporary workers, escalating fight over job cuts

GM sought to extend that period, and while the UAW agreed it had also pushed for the laid off pool of workers to eventually be hired to fill those openings, the lawsuit said

Amazon workers strike in Spain ahead of Three Kings gift-giving

MADRID (Reuters) - Workers at Amazon's biggest warehouse in Spain started a two-day strike on Thursday just ahead of a gift-giving feast day, as part of a long-running campaign for better pay and conditions.

UAW sues GM over use of temporary workers at Indiana plant

DETROIT (Reuters) - The United Auto Workers union sued General Motors Co in federal court on Thursday, claiming the automaker's use of temporary workers at a plant in Indiana violates its labor deal and escalating a fight over GM's plans to possibly close U.S. factories.

U.S. private payrolls surge in December; weekly jobless claims rise

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. private payrolls increased by the most in nearly two years in December, suggesting sustained strength in the labor market despite ongoing financial market volatility.

Govt trying to redraft process of granting recognition to trade unions: CITU

Left-backed labour union CITU on Thursday came down heavily on the Centre's move to amend the Trade Unions Act and accused the BJP government of redrafting the procedure of granting recognition to central trade unions. The Trade Unions (Amendment) Act, 2018 is "thoroughly designed with dubious articulation to impose conditions of slavery on the working people and totally abrogate trade union rights", the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) said in a statement. The CITU alleged that the proposed amendments reveal the government's dubious intent in total departure from existing mutually-agreed practices being followed for the last couple of decades. It pledged to raise the issues during its countrywide two day general strike on January 8 and 9. The Narendra Modi Cabinet had on Wednesday approved amendment to the Trade Unions Act, 1926, to make provisions regarding recognition of trade unions. The present Act provides for only registration of trade unions and there is no provision for ..

AITUC condemns govt move to amend Trade Union Act

All India Trade Union Congress Thursday said the government has proposed amendment to Trade Union Act with "malafide intentions and to interfere with independent functioning of trade unions in the country". The Cabinet Wednesday approved amendment to the Trade Unions Act, 1926 to make provisions over recognition of trade unions. The present Act provides for only registration of trade unions. Currently, there is no provision for recognition of unions in the Act. "The government has malafide intentions to meddle with the laid down procedures for recognition of trade unions at state and central level. Through this amendment they actually want rights of government in the state and central level to interfere into the independent functioning of the trade unions. "It (the bill) is regressive and would take us to British era position. We fought during British rule in India to get Trade Union Act 1926 and later on, improvements in that. But, this government is camouflaging and actually wanting

West Bengal govt employees to get DA at 125pc from January

West Bengal government employees will get dearness allowance at 125 per cent of their basic pay from this month, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Thursday. She also assured the employees to clear all the dues by January. A leader of the West Bengal State Coordination Committee, an organisation of state government employees, said it is actually an old announcement as the state government had decided in June last year to pay DA at 125 per cent from January. On June 2018, Banerjee had announced 18 per cent hike in dearness allowance for state government employees and a 10 per cent interim relief from January 2019. Post this raise, the gap of DA between Central government employees with state employees will be 23 per cent.