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People prefer one kind of job, needless cry over unemployment:
Isha Foundation founder Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Sunday said the reason for hue and cry over unemployment was because of people's preference for one kind of a job, when there were many others around. "In this country, nobody should be talking about unemployment as there is so much to be done in India.. The problem is people look for a certain kind of job, when there are many other kinds of jobs around," he said at the sixth session of Youth and Truth series on IIM-B campus here. Sadhguru was replying to a query from students on unemployment in India. Noting that there were several problems afflicting the country, he said people should use their knowledge to find solutions to them. "If you have a working brain and a seeing eye, there are thousands of things to be done right around you. If you are enterprising, can the world stop you? Where there is a problem, there is a possibility," he added. Sadhguru further said India never had role models in its culture because the idea .
India has become a favourite investment destination: Pradhan
Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has said that India has become a favourable destination for investors from all across the world.Addressing a gathering at the inaugural event of 11th Global Skills Summit in Delhi organised by FICCI and the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, the Union Minister said that in coming years, one-third of primary energy requirement of the world will be received by India."Today, in this competitive sphere, India has become a favourable destination for investors from all across the world. Incoming 25 years, one-third of primary energy requirement of the world will be received by India," he said.The Minister also called for a collective introspection on the changing nature of job profiles. He said, "Internet is changing the character of the workplace at a frenetic pace, and therefore, policy shapers need to astutely comprehend the jobs scenario."Hailing that India is blessed with intellectual manpower, the Union Minister said, "India was ...
Pay hike to benefit 25 lakh Anganwadi workers: Jaitley
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBM) has become a "people's movement" with a large participation of women, noting that the decision to hike compensation will benefit around 25 lakh Anganwadi workers and their families.
Need to figure out jobs of future in times of AI: Former Infosys CEO
The youth need to figure out the jobs of the future and garner the required skills as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other such technological advances may to cause job losses, said Kris Gopalakrishnan, co-founder and former CEO of Infosys, on Saturday.
4 children injured in explosion at firecracker factory in UP
Four children sustained burn injuries when an explosion took place at a firecracker factory where they were working here Saturday, officials said. Jhansi District Magistrate Shiv Sahay Awasthi said the explosion took place in a firecracker factory. "At a licenced firecracker factory in Palra village, sudden explosion took place at around noon. Four children sustained burn injuries and have been admitted to Jhansi Medical College, where the condition of one of them is said to be critical," he said. "The labour department has been directed to initiate stringent actions against the erring factory owner for employing minors in the firecrack factory," the DM said. Search is underway to trace the factory owner Angad Gupta, he said. The district magistrate also said that action has been initiated to cancel the licence of the factory. He added that a case has been registered against the factory owner.
Pradhan urges policy makers to focus on nature of future jobs
Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Saturday called for a collective introspection on the changing nature of job profiles and urged policy makers to zero in on the nature of future jobs and their availability. Public policy makers need to come to grips with changing nature of jobs and their availability, Pradhan said while releasing a report 'Future of Jobs in India-2.0 and Employer-led Models of Job Creation-Version:2' at 11th Global Skills Summit organised by Ficci here. "Those responsible for fashioning public policy need to zero in on the nature of future jobs and where they would be available," he said, adding "the belief that technology and innovation were squeezing the job space was a myth". While some jobs were being squeezed, a multi-fold increase was being witnessed in many other sectors due to technological innovation, the Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Minister said. Internet, he said, was changing the character of the workplace at a frenetic pace, and therefore, ..
U.S. union urges states to look into T-Mobile purchase of Sprint
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Communication Workers of America labor union, which opposes T-Mobile's proposed purchase of rival Sprint, has written to all 50 state attorneys general to highlight potential job losses from the proposed deal as well as antitrust concerns.
AP Govt launches website to tackle unemployment
The Andhra Pradesh government on Friday announced to start an unemployment allowance for the state's youth from October 2018. Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu also launched website for the scheme today.The candidates can register online on the website yuvanestham.ap.gov.in. to be part of the scheme.As per the scheme, the unemployed youth between the age group of 25 years to 35 years will get an allowance of Rs. 1000 along with free of cost skill development training.Speaking at the event, the Chief Minister said, "Post-bifurcation, our state is facing many problems. Even then we are number one in growth at the national level. This allowance is merely an encouragement. Use it, take the skill development training. Best training and placement is also part of the scheme."To avail the benefits of the scheme, the candidates should have a post graduate degree, graduation degree, or a diploma almost a year ago. They must have a white ration card and must be resident of Andhra Pradesh. They ..
Bangladesh unions reject USD 95 minimum wage for garment workers
Bangladesh unions staged street protests Friday to reject what they called an "inhuman" USD 95 a month minimum wage fixed by the government for the country's four million garment workers. Authorities said the new wage marked a 51 percent rise and would be applied from December but hundreds of workers hit the streets of Dhaka within hours of the announcement vowing to fight for more. Unions said they would organise action across Bangladesh. The current minimum wage of 5,300 taka ($63) was set in 2013 after at least 1,130 people were killed when a the Rana Plaza garment factory in Dhaka collapsed. The new wage was set at 8,000 taka. "We can't accept this salary. It is an injustice and inhuman. It is cheating the workers," Jolly Talukder, a top union leader, told AFP. Talukder's group is one of three leftist outfits that staged protests in Dhaka and she said more were planned to demand a wage of at least 16,000 taka. Another union leader Babul Akter told AFP almost all unions, except ...
Ryanair announces preliminary deal with Italian staff
Budget airline Ryanair announced on Friday that it has reached an agreement with flight crew unions in Italy to provide employment contracts under Italian law. In a press release, Ryanair said agreements had been signed "in principle" with unions FIT-CISL, ANPAC and ANPAV in Rome on Thursday. Also on Thursday, Italian crews, alongside their Belgian, Dutch, Spanish and Portugese counterparts announced a 24-hour stoppage on September 28 that unions said would be the biggest strike in the Irish carrier's history. With confirmation of the agreement between Ryanair and the Italian crews -- set to come into effect on October 1 for a period of three years -- their participation in the forthcoming strike is unclear, with union leaders currently leading consultation on the matter. According to unions, the agreement will allow for crews to work under contracts composed under Italian law rather than Irish legislation, addressing a key demand from staff. Provisions are also in place for salary ...
USD 300,000 penalty imposed on US firm for paying low wages to H-1B employees
A US-based IT staffing company has been asked to pay over USD 300,000 to its 12 H-1B employees for paying them far below their salary and imposed a penalty of over USD 45,000 for violating the labour provisions, amidst the Trump administration's crackdown against the abuse of the visa category popular among Indian professionals. The US Department of Labour Wage and Hour Division (WHD) during an investigation found the Redmond-based company, which has offices in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, violated the labour provisions of the H-1B visa programme by paying its guest workers far below the required wages, a media release said Thursday. As a result, People Tech Group Inc has been asked to pay its 12 employees USD 309,914 and has been slapped with a penalty of USD 45,564, it said. The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. Investigators found that the company paid ...
Penalty imposed on US company for paying low wages to H-1B employees
A Redmond-based information technology staffing company was asked to pay over USD 300,000 to its 12 H-1B employees for paying them far below their salary and has been imposed a penalty of over USD 45,000 for violating the labour provisions. The US Department of Labour Wage and Hour Division (WHD) during an investigation found the company, which has offices in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, violated the labour provisions of the H-1B visa programme by paying its guest workers far below the required wages, a media release said Thursday. As a result, People Tech Group Inc has been asked to pay its 12 employees USD 309,914 and has been slapped with a penalty of USD 45,564, it said. Investigators found that the company paid entry-level wages to H-1B computer analysts and computer programmers who performed the work of much more experienced employees and should have received higher prevailing rates, the Department of Labour said. The People Tech Group also failed to pay workers for the time when ..
L&G closes $5.7 billion British Airways pension deal
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Legal & General (L&G) has closed a deal to insure 4.4 billion pounds ($5.73 billion) of British Airways' historic pensions liabilities, the insurer said on Thursday.
Assam opens BPO unit under Digital India initiative
As the BPO (Business Processing Outsourcing) industry is making giant strides in Northeast India; a new unit under the 'Northeast BPO promotion scheme' has opened in Guwahati.BPO, being the fastest growing segments of the Information Technology Enabled Services industry (ITES), is one of the major sources of livelihood for many in the region.Operations manager Uday Kiran, said, "We have established a BPO unit with the help of the government of India as well as the state government of Assam. We would like to thank STBI who supported us to establish this BPO unit here. We now provide employment for 70 people."To bring in more development, the Centre has rolled out the Northeast BPO promotion scheme envisaged under the Digital India Programme that seeks to incentivise establishment of 5000 seats in respect to BPO/ITES operations in North Eastern Region.Other than Guwahati, many BPO centers under the scheme have been inaugurated in different parts of Imphal.An employee, Kabita Singh said,
Ryanair faces one-day strike in five countries over contracts
BRUSSELS/DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ryanair faces a one-day walkout by cabin crew across five countries on Sept. 28 as unions step up pressure on Europe's biggest budget airline to accept local contracts.
Delhi government moves SC against judgement quashing minimum wages
The Delhi government on Thursday moved the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court judgement quashing a notification on the Minimum Wages Advisory Committee and another on enhancement of minimum wages in the capital.
No of Indian seafarers rises to over 1.5 lakh: Mandaviya
Steps to increase employment opportunities in the maritime sector in India has resulted in the number of seafarers reaching to over 1.5 lakh, Minister of State for Shipping Mansukh L Mandaviya said Thursday. He said earlier only 92,000 persons from India were engaged as seafarers. "The number of seafarers in the country has increased by over 60,000. While only about 92, 000 people were engaged in ship related jobs, their number has gone up to 1,56,000 now," Mandaviya told media persons here. He said the government has taken several steps to increase employment opportunities for the youth in this sector. The reforms include improving the sea farers examination, he said and added that while earlier only 1-2 per cent applicants could clear the exam, with improved curriculum the pass percentage has gone up to 10 per cent. This has resulted in more and more young people qualifying for jobs in the sector, Mandaviya said, adding that plans are to create employment opportunity for another ...
Mid-day meal workers demand wage hike; to hold demonstrations on Sept 24
A mid-day meal workers' federation on Wednesday demanded that their minimum wages immediately be hiked to Rs 18,000 per month with pension and social security. The demand by Mid Day Meal Workers' Federation of India (MDMWFI) comes a day after Modi announced an increase in the monthly honorarium of ASHA and Anganwadis workers. According to the announcement, ASHA workers drawing an honorarium of Rs 3,000 will get Rs 4,500 and those who getting Rs 2,200 will get Rs 3,500 from October. The honorarium for Anganwadi helpers will be hiked from Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,500. "MDMWFI demands immediate increase in the wages of mid-day meal workers and implementation of the decisions of the 45th Indian Labour Conference - recognition as workers, minimum wages of Rs 18,000 per month and pension and social security," the federation said in a statement. "Mid-day meal workers, the majority of whom are women from socially backward sections, work for six hours a day and get a meagre salary of Rs 1,000 per ...
Tech to cost SE Asia millions of jobs, doom 'factory model', warns WEF
Automation will soon make millions of low-skilled jobs -- from cashiers and machine operators to waiters and drivers -- redundant across Southeast Asia, experts said Wednesday, warning the region to upskill fast or face huge employment problems. The topic was centre stage at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Hanoi, where warnings abounded that countries including Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand where manufacturing has driven GDP and employed millions would be among the worst affected. In stark comments, Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc told the forum technology could spell doom for the "Asian factory model" of growth that has driven his country for recent years. While richer economies such as Japan and Singapore have embraced so-called "disruptive technologies", poorer manufacturing hubs are not yet equipped to adapt to rapid change driven by automation. But they may soon have no choice. About 6.6 million jobs in Southeast Asia are likely to become "redundant" within a ...
Strict, yet kind boss can boost employees' performance: Study
If you want your employees to perform better, enforce discipline with kindness and compassion instead of just wielding authority, suggests a study.