Page 11 - Labour Laws

Manish Sabharwal & Rajesh Krishnan: Fixing labour plumbing

Most of our employers are small and informal for many reasons but an important one is the regulatory cholesterol created by our labour laws

Amendment Bills for 2 Labour Acts likely to be placed in Parliament

Amendments to Maternity Benefit Act and Workmen Compensation Act are likely to go to cabinet for approval

26-week maternity leave for women soon

The Bill is about mothers and children. It is not about the men (fathers): Minister

BMS asks Centre to stop 'anti-labour' reforms

Unhappy over the Centre's reform agenda, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-affiliated trade union Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh

Manish Sabharwal & Shihabudin Abdulkhader: The cost of paper compliance

India's labour laws force employers to use five billion sheets of paper or 600,000 trees a year. It's time we dispensed with the paper trail and shifted all labour law paper, workflows and permissions online

SAC sets up panel on regularisation of casual labourers

The committee will also look into the financial, legal and administrative issues