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Atishi hikes Delhi's minimum wages to become highest in the entire country, workers to be paid minimum Rs 18,066 starting Oct 1
According to Atishi, before the AAP came to power in 2013, the minimum wage for unskilled workers i…
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One in four organizations plan to make variable a part of the wages
Around 25% of the organizations are planning to include variable pay in the wage definition. One ou…
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Is the ‘Skill India’ campaign toothless? Unemployment amongst ‘skilled’ higher than ‘unskilled’, reports survey
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government has set a new target of getting 400 million Indians…
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India is revamping its minimum wage laws for the first time in 60 years
Once the bill is implemented, a state government will not be allowed to set a minimum wage below…
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Unorganized labour cheap across the world?
The New York Times recently published a report on Amazon’s orientation process in the US. It carrie…
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Bhutan is known for prizing happiness. Its people also work longer than any other country.
Despite Bhutan's reputation for putting happiness above GDP, its people work longer than anywhere e…
Joshua Nelken-Zitser
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Being a voluntary NEET can be good for your mental health, according to a psychologist
Those who choose not to be engaged in employment, education, or training may be saving themselves s…
Lindsay Dodgson
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US received enough visa applications to meet H-2B cap for H2 FY23
The US has received a sufficient number of applications to meet the congressionally-mandated H-2B c…
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Female construction workers earn 30-40% less than male workers, says report by Primus Partners & World Trade Center
Informal women workers in the Indian construction and real estate sector earn 30-40% less than male…
PTI
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39% of MGNREGA job card holders didn’t get a single day of work in 2020-21, says study
Only 36% of households who worked under this scheme received their wages in 15 days.The scheme was …
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US to issue 64,716 additional H-2B visas for fiscal year 2023
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) are issuing a tempor…
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Budget 2022 expectation: Why India needs an urban MGNREGA
This year’s Union Budget, which will be announced on February 1 by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sit…
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Boom In Jobs: Corporate India goes on a hiring spree, IT sector leads the way
After retrenching employees en masse after the onset of the pandemic, Corporate India has created m…
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COVID-19: EAM has promised to bring back stranded Indians from Gulf, claims IUML
Kunhalikutty, who was talking to over phone, said the latest development was the result of his wri…
PTI
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Job seekers under MGNREGA has jumped 50% as migrant workers forced to return home are desperate for livelihood
More people are looking for jobs under MGNREGA as enrollment surges by 50% with migrants forced to …
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85 per cent daily wagers in Ahmedabad hit by lockdown: Survey
About 54 per cent of the 500 families said they had tocut down from three meals to two meals a day,…
PTI
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What is Magnerga and how can one Enroll in the scheme
The government was operating schemes like Jawahar Rozgaar Yojana, Food for Work Programme, and…
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India has nearly 2,000 different minimum wages and the latest Economic Survey has called for ‘uniformity’— an idea corporates won’t like
As the Economic Survey 2018-19 was tabled in the Rajya Sabha, the Indian government is looking to e…
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India’s auto stocks cheer after Parliamentary Panel agrees that they need more stimulus and the dealers need loans with less collateral
Indian benchmark indices remained in the grip of bulls, recording fresh highs during the trade toda…
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Modi government has a hidden jobs report — say two independent bureaucrats who just quit
Two independent members of a commission created to add credibility to India’s economic data have …