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Global youth unemployment hits lowest in 15 Years: Key trends in 2024
Global youth unemployment hits lowest in 15 Years: Key trends in 2024
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Wages of Assam tea workers "meagre"; welfare scheme implementation has "several shortcomings": CAG report
The CAG report also found the state government's intervention in fixing wages as per the Minimum Wa…
PTI
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Incomes are either rising too slowly or falling at the lower end of the bracket
India’s gross domestic product (GDP) has been growing at a much faster clip than expected — most go…
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Recovery in real estate sector likely to boost household income, says ICICI Securities
The sector generates a variety of jobs including for construction workers and other informal job…
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Global labour income estimated to have declined by $3.5 trillion in first 3 quarters of 2020, says ILO
Global labour income is estimated to have declined by 10.7 per cent or USD 3.5 trillion in the firs…
PTI
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Modern slavery: 50 million — mostly women, children, and migrants — still trapped in forced labour and marriages, UN asserts
If you had to make everyone trapped in state-imposed forced labour in a line, you’d sadly notice th…
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India’s ‘labour reforms’ need these three safety nets— or else the people will be exposed to exploitation
At least six Indian states decided to use the COVID-19 economic crash to push through some difficul…
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There is a caste and religion bias in salaries says an Oxfam report
According to the 'India Discrimination Report 2022', which highlights bias in accessing jobs, li…
PTI
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50 million people worldwide in modern slavery: ILO
According to the latest report by the UN agency titled, 'Global Estimates of Modern Slavery', 28…
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Coronavirus fallout has erased $3.5 trillion in workforce income, UN agency says
Second-quarter working-hour losses reached 495 million jobs, which is above the prior estimate of 4…
Ben Winck
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Global hotel room prices are skyrocketing, but the 5-star vacation crowd remains unfazed despite lackluster service due to worker shortages
Globally, prices have increased by 184%. This is largely due to the sudden surge in travel demand, …
Katie Boon
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FICCI, McKinsey whitepaper outlines path to 600 million jobs, ₹10 lakh per capita income by 2047
Industry body FICCI and management consulting firm McKinsey have come up with a whitepaper outlinin…
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Vanished savings, trading down to cheaper essentials – life in rural India hit by a wilted Rabi crop
This Rabi crop has been cursed by weather gods since the beginning as unseasonal rains had hit t…
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At 21 million per year, teenage pregnancy rates remain distressingly high in low- and middle-income countries
As per a recent assessment, the adolescent pregnancy rate is rising alarmingly in developing countr…
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India’s large and young labour force could become a huge disadvantage by 2030
A new report by the the research arm of the State Bank of India (SBI), India’s largest bank, has a…
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Labour spent £897.60 on flyers marked with the English flag for the Hartlepool by-election, which it lost
The unpersuasive patriotic gesture was highlighted in official spending returns from the campaign i…
Henry Dyer
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COVID-19 cost women over $800 billion in lost income — more than the combined wealth of 98 countries
Globally, women lost more than 64 million jobs last year. That’s a loss of 5% for women, compar…
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Half the world's population doesn't have healthcare, stable income, retirement plans, or childcare. The pandemic created a crossroads to change that.
A report from the International Labor Organization looked at access to social safety net programs a…
Juliana Kaplan
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Billionaires Azim Premji and Kiran Mazumdar Shaw argue against the labour ‘reforms’ in Indian states— and they are not alone
However, the idea does not resonate well with the experts. After a notice from the Allah…
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Indian women don’t like being gig workers — the potentially $455 billion industry has to woo them with fair pay to start with
There are at least two surveys that explain the lag in the labour reforms for women. In 2018, …