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MGNREGS will need Rs 32K-crore more aid to meet demand: Experts

But a supplementary budgetary support of Rs 50,000 cr would be appropriate to fulfil all requirements of this year: Activists

New Zealand expands vaccine mandate, 40% of workers to get fully vaccinated

The changes will mean that about 40 per cent of all New Zealand workers will need to get fully vaccinated against the coronavirus or risk losing their jobs, up from about 15 per cent previously.

81% received full wages in first wave of Covid-19 pandemic: Survey

70% of firms didn't cut jobs; in fact, health sector increased employment

Bumpy road ahead for Ford India as talks with unions on separation flop

Workers at both units set to get into a protracted feud with the management over closure terms and job security

Tyson Foods offers front-line workers paid sick leave; 75% vaccinated

Tyson Foods is offering its front-line workers paid sick leave for the first time, part of an agreement that secured union support for its mandat

e-portal for database on unorganised workers to come up on Thursday

Single-point reference to help authorities track workers in informal sector

Sharp uptick in blue-collar employment likely in 2nd half of 2021: Report

Maharashtra may be biggest contributor, according to a report

Covid-19 pandemic: Tales of migrant workers betray a year of woes

Their lives thrown into disarray, they struggle with lack of aid, jobs and vaccine

Manufacturing trouble: Covid robs Moradabad's Brass City of its polish

SMEs struggling, recovery slow; rise in key raw material cost hurting exporters

Almost 92% casual workers didn't get wages during lockdown: SWAN survey

The survey, which was conducted among 1,396 worker groups, adding up to 8,023 people that included 4,836 women and children, showed that 76 per cent of the workers had less than Rs 200 left with them

Lockdowns again: Migrant crisis to job cuts, fear has come back too soon

The lockdown will hurt urban employment in April or beyond

Delhi night curfew: Shops being closed at 8 pm, employees fear job loss

With the first night curfew of the year being imposed in the national capital, the shops at various places here are being closed at 8 pm while the workers are fearing job loss

Coolies on the frontline

Book review of The Coolie's Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict (1914-21)

Three mantras for informal sector

By some accounts, the informal sector accounts for more than 80 per cent of the workforce and 50 per cent of the GVA in India

Second Covid-19 wave: Night curfew pushes Patiala biz to the brink

The hospitality sector, which was gradually picking up after the lockdown, is one among many that is feeling the heat

US orders Tesla CEO Elon Musk to delete tweet on worker benefits

The NLRB backed a ruling from a US labor judge in 2019 that the electric-car maker had committed a series of violations of the National Labor Relations Act in 2017 and 2018

Covid-19 pandemic hit India's women labourers the hardest, shows data

India's LFPR was 50.2% according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey 2018-19. The pandemic further pushed people out of work

Blast at UPL plant kills two, Gujarat govt orders closure of unit

The company has been directed to pay ex-gratia to the next of kin of the deceased workers

Labour codes: Reform 2.0

Economic reforms require expending political capital by the governments, as the benefits of reforms are spread thin and become apparent only with a time lag

Labour markets disappoint in Dec

The count of the unemployed mounted to 38.7 million in December 2020 compared to 27.4 million in November, registering a massive increase of 11.3 million