Page 6 - Workers

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

Wistron's labour pains

Lessons from the controversy over unpaid workers

Apple puts Wistron on probation, suspends new business opportunities

Wistron on Saturday admitted to certain lapses in payments to workers at the facility in Kolar district and said that it is removing its vice president Vincent Lee, who oversees its business in India

Will leave no stone unturned to improve working conditions: Zomato

Only two platforms (Urban Company and Flipkart) were able to demonstrate that additional measures were taken to actively improve working conditions

Govt proposes to up daily factory work limit to 12 hours, draws protests

Work-life balance of employees will be hurt if they work for so long and then commute, say labour economists

20 mn construction workers get Rs 5,000 cr as relief during pandemic: Govt

He expressed gratitude towards all officials and regional offices of these three organisations for their collective dedication