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International Labour Day 2024: Date, history, significance of day and more

International Labour Day: Labour Day is celebrated every year on May 1 to mark the struggle and contribution of workers and working-class people. Check date, history, significance and more

Bank holiday on May 1: Why banks are closed tomorrow, check the details

Banks will remain shut tomorrow, May 1, due to Maharashtra Day and Labour day. Check states where banks will remain closed tomorrow

Burning Man flooding strands tens of thousand peaople at Nevada site

Tens of thousands of people gathered for the Burning Man festival remained stranded in the Nevada desert on Sunday after storms that swept through the area, as authorities investigated a possible death and worked to open exit paths by the end of the Labour Day weekend. Organisers closed vehicular access to the counterculture festival and attendees trudged through mud, many barefoot or wearing plastic bags on their feet. The revellers were urged to shelter in place and conserve food, water and other supplies. Most remained hunkered down hoping roads open as early as Monday, though a few managed to walk several miles to the nearest town. Celebrity DJ Diplo posted a video to Instagram on Saturday evening showing him and comedian Chris Rock riding in the back of a fan's pickup truck. He said they had walked six miles through the mud before hitching a ride. I legit walked the side of the road for hours with my thumb out, wrote Diplo, whose real name is Thomas Wesley Pentz. The ...

Labour Day 2023: History, Evolvement, Importance, Celebration of day

May 1st is generally celebrated as Labour Day 2023 and a holiday globally that perceives the achievements of the labour movement

International Labour Day: Celebrations, history, and all you need to know

Labour Day celebrations are associated with socialist political movements around the world that demand equity in the workplace

Top CEOs got an average hike of 9% in 2022, workers' wages fell 3%: Oxfam

International Labour Day: Workers in India, the US, the UK and South Africa worked six days for free in 2022 due to inflation-wage mismatch, says Oxfam

Currencies in limbo amid Labour Day holiday in most Asian markets

Weighing on risk sentiment on Monday was the unexpected contraction in China's manufacturing activity in April

Joe Biden blasts 'extreme' GOP members in Labour Day battleground trips

President Joe Biden excoriated MAGA Republicans" and the extreme right on Monday, pitching personal Labour Day appeals to union members in two key swing states that he hopes will turn out in force for his party in November. The middle class built America, Biden told a workers' gathering at park grounds in Milwaukee. Everybody knows that. But unions built the middle class. Later Monday, he flew to West Mifflin, outside Pittsburgh returning to Pennsylvania for the third time in less than a week and just two days after his predecessor, Donald Trump, staged his own rally in the state. The unofficial start of fall, Labour Day also traditionally starts a political busy season where campaigns scramble to excite voters for Election Day on November 8. That's when control of the House and Senate, as well some of the country's top governorships, will be decided. Trump spoke Saturday night in Wilkes-Barre, near Scranton, where Biden was born. The president made his own Wilkes-Barre trip la

DMK govt stands for uplift of workforce, says CM MK Stalin on May Day

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Sunday said that his DMK government is for the uplift of the workforce as he extended greetings on the International Labour Day.

UP, MP exchange 6,600 of their stranded labourers amid Covid-19 lockdown

Adityanath writes letters to counterparts in other states

May Day in times of pandemic: A long march for Indian migrant workers

Here's a look at the status of thousands of migrant workers amid the global pandemic and also the measures announced for their welfare

Labour Day: 121 workplace deaths in FY18 at India's top companies

Mishaps related to fire, fall from height some of the workplace hazards

May Day: Nitin Gadkari demands better facilities for unorganised workers

Transport minister calls for fast-tracking justice delivery in labour courts, wants healthcare for workers to be privatised

Labour Day: PM Modi salutes workers who play big role in India's progress

On Labour Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today saluted workers, saying they play a big role in the country's progress. "Today, on Labour Day we salute the determination & hardwork of countless workers who play a big role in India's progress. Shrameva Jayate!," he tweeted. International Workers' Day also known as Labour Day celebrates the spirit of labourers. The Prime Minister also wished Gujarat and Maharashtra on their foundation day.