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- India
Abhishek threatens to gherao homes of BJP lawmakers over tea workers’ demands
Malbazar: Houses of all BJP MPs and MLAs in West Bengal will be gheraoed if provident fund and gratuity benefits are not provided to over 3 lakh tea garden workers in the…
- Hyderabad
‘No Muslim delivery boy’ row: Workers union calls Swiggy’s response ‘tokenistic’, invites for meet
Hyderabad: Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union on Sunday reacted to Swiggy’s response on the issue ‘no Muslim delivery boy’ request from a customer and called it ‘tokenistic’ of the food delivery…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Man ends life over alleged harassment by loan app executives
Hyderabad: In an incident reported from Ramkoti, a man allegedly died by suicide after being harassed by loan app executives, on Friday. The deceased identified as C Ravinder Yadav took a loan…
- Middle East
Kuwait revise fee for domestic labour recruitment
Kuwait: The Kuwaiti government has revised fees for recruiting new domestic workers from abroad as the country seeks to end a shortage in this category of manpower, local media reported. The Ministry…
- World
COVID-19 test workers strike over unpaid wages in China
Shenyang: Workers at test centres in northeastern China have been holding strikes over unpaid wages in a nationwide COVID-19 testing industry that has expanded far beyond its sources of funding, RFA reported.…
- Business
Retail inflation for farm, rural workers rise in June
New Delhi: Retail inflation for farm workers and rural labourers rose to 6.43 percent and 6.76 percent, respectively, in June due to higher prices of certain food items. In June last year,…
- Telangana
Telangana: ‘Baahubali’ rescue of toddler in Peddapalli district
Hyderabad: The rescue operations in the flood-affected parts of Telangana are throwing up dramatic visuals. A toddler was rescued on a plastic tub carried on the head by a rescue worker in…
- Technology
Netflix bids goodbye to 300 employees in 2nd round of layoffs
San Francisco: After laying off several employees recently, popular video streaming platform Netflix has once again shown the exit door to an additional 300 employees in the second round of layoffs. According…
- Technology
Tesla layoffs have also impacted hourly workers: Report
San Francisco: Elon Musk-owned electric vehicle company Tesla has started another wave of layoffs, and this time it also includes hourly workers instead of just salaried employees as the CEO claimed. Informed…
- Automobile
Majority of Ford India’s workers continue protest, some resume duty
Chennai: While the majority of Ford India Private Ltd’s about 2,600 workers at its Maraimalai Nagar plant near here are continuing their protest demanding a better severance package, a small group of…
- Technology
Alphabet, Meta had highest-paid median workers in 2021: Report
San Francisco: The median compensation for most S&P 500 corporations increased last year as the economy grew and the job market tightened, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. The report mentioned…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Sanitation workers stage protest after GHMC cuts wages
Hyderabad: Sanitation workers of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) staged a protest to seek full compensation after the GHMC’s Charminar office cut their wages, on Wednesday. The sanitation employees boycotted their tasks…
- Technology
Apple reportedly discouraging retail workers from forming a union
San Francisco: As Apple retail store employees move forward to form a union over pay parity and other issues, the tech giant’s vice president of people and retail, Deirdre O’Brien, is reportedly…
- Telangana
Telangana: SSCL protest against the privatization of coal mines
Hyderabad: The workers of the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) protested against the central government’s decision to privatize the public sector company and alleged that they are corrupting the company. The protests…
- Technology
Apple NY retail store workers begin efforts to form a union
New York: Apple employees at its iconic New York City store in Grand Central Terminal are set to form a union, the way Amazon warehouse and fulfilment centre workers are attempting to.…
