labour
- Featured News
Labour dynamics in India: Impact of population changes
By Mrinmayee Kulkarni India’s population explosion since its independence over 70 years ago has tripled. While this has led to a young and potentially abundant labour force, India’s urbanisation progress has not…
- Opinions
Why are Muslims marginalised in Delhi’s labour market?
By Khalid Khan The Sachar Committee Report is one of the first government documents highlighting the marginalisation of Muslim minorities in terms of their socio-economic conditions. The independent studies on the Muslim…
- India
SC gives 3 more months to states, UTs to provide ration cards to left-out migrant labourers
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday granted another three months time to all states and Union territories to provide rations cards to migrant labourers registered on the e-shram portal for availing…
- India
Unemployment rate in urban areas dips
New Delhi: Unemployment rate, or the percentage of persons unemployed among the labour force, for persons aged 15 years and above in urban areas had declined to 7.2 per cent during October-December…
- World
‘Finland must triple immigration to maintain labour force’
Helsinki: Finland needs net immigration of up to 44,000 people annually to stabilize the size of the country’s labor force, a report has said. The report published by the Research Institute of…
- Middle East
65,000 foreign employees benefited from Saudi Arabia’s labour reforms: Ministry
Riyadh: A total of 65,000 foreign employees have benefited from the labour reforms initiated by Saudi Arabia one year ago, said the kingdom’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development. The “contractual…
- World
US initial jobless claims spike after hitting record low
Washington: Initial unemployment claims in the US increased to 373,000 last week, after hitting the lowest level since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Labour Department reported. In the week ending…
- Middle East
Saudi Arabia unemployment rate falls to 6.5% in Q1
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia’s unemployment rate fell to 6.5 per cent in the first quarter of 2021, compared to 7.4 per cent of the last quarter in 2020, state media reported. The General…
- World
Australia’s unemployment rate falls to 5.1%
Canberra: Australia’s unemployment rate has fallen for the seventh consecutive month to pre-pandemic levels, according to labour force data released on Thursday. The data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)…
- World
Canada’s unemployment rate reaches 8.1 percent
Ottawa: The Canadian unemployment rate rose 0.6 percentage point to 8.1 percent in April from March 2021 as public health measures against the Covid-19 pandemic were tightened. In a statement on Friday, Statistics…
- India
PIL in HC to curb begging by children at traffic signals
New Delhi: A PIL in the Delhi High Court has sought directions to the Centre and AAP government to curb child begging and prevent employing children as labour at traffic signals to sell…
- Featured News
Why do our farmers and farm labour get the lowest wage rates?
Amir Ullah Khan and Anjana Divakar India’s economy has been among the fastest growing economies in the world, at least till 2016 and, one of its major contributors has been the agriculture…
- World
Labour and Greens to have Cooperation Agreement
Wellington: The Labour Party and the Green Party will have a Cooperation Agreement that will see the Green Party Co-leaders hold ministerial portfolios outside of Cabinet, and areas of cooperation on climate,…
- India
Ludhiana’s cycle industry falls down due to labour shortage
Ludhiana: The bicycle manufactures in Ludhiana are unable to meet the rising demand and recover the losses faced during the nationwide lockdown due to shortage of labour in the state. “The cycle…
- India
Lockdown brings focus on labour
Kingshuk Nag Defying the lockdown migrant workers came on the road in hundreds in Mumbai outside the Bandra railway station on Tuesday afternoon demanding that they are provided transport to back to…
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