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Unemployment rate for persons aged 15 years and above has remained unchanged at 3.2 per cent in July 2023 to June 2024, according to the labour force survey annual report released on Monday. The unemployment rate (UR) is defined as the percentage of persons unemployed among the persons in the labour force. The report stated that while the UR for male has shown a marginal decline from 3.3 per cent during July 2022 June 2023 to 3.2 per per cent during July 2023 June 2024, among female it has increased from 2.9 per cent to 3.2 per cent during the same time span. Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR) in usual status for persons of age 15 years and above was 60.1 per cent during July 2023 - June 2024 higher than 57.9 per cent in the previous year. The same for male and female was 78.8 per cent and 41.7 per cent, respectively. LFPR is defined as the percentage of persons in labour force (i.e. working or seeking or available for work) in the population. LFPR for female of age 15 year

Updated On: 23 Sep 2024 | 8:32 PM IST

If Infosys fails to honour commitment and breaches joining date, NITES will organise a protest right in front of its office, said Harpreet Singh Saluja, president of the IT employee union

Updated On: 03 Sep 2024 | 10:40 AM IST

Over the next five years, nearly a quarter of all jobs will change as a result of AI, digitization and other economic developments like the green energy transition and supply chain re-shoring

Updated On: 01 May 2023 | 9:11 AM IST

The affected workers have now created a WhatsApp group to share their concerns. A majority of the about 300 people in the group are from India, the report said

Updated On: 11 Nov 2022 | 3:31 PM IST

According to a senior official of the US embassy, India is America's top priority for issuance of visas

Updated On: 10 Nov 2022 | 6:17 PM IST

During the festive season, more than 500,000 short-term jobs are expected to be created

Updated On: 05 Sep 2022 | 1:40 PM IST

A whopping 81 per cent of employees in India believe that their jobs can be done remotely, according to a survey

Updated On: 18 Aug 2022 | 2:43 PM IST

Now, more than half of the 900 million Indians of legal working age -- roughly the population of the US and Russia combined -- don't want a job, according to the CMIE

Updated On: 26 Apr 2022 | 2:04 AM IST

The Monster Employment Index (MEI) showed online recruitment activity exceeded the year-ago level in 11 out of the 13 cities monitored by the index

Updated On: 19 Apr 2022 | 12:56 PM IST

The travel and tourism industry, one of the hardest hit by the pandemic in the country, is on the path of recovery and registered a 4 per cent year-on-year growth in job postings during December 2021

Updated On: 25 Jan 2022 | 2:32 PM IST

Atos has around 40,000 employees in India. The company had a total revenue of Euro 11 billion for the 2020 calendar year

Updated On: 04 Jan 2022 | 3:46 PM IST

The government has to step up with effective policy measures are needed to support demand creation and maintain employment, industry chamber PHDCCI said on Monday.

Updated On: 31 May 2021 | 9:32 PM IST

Monster Employment Index showed that job postings witnessed a 6% sequential growth in February

Updated On: 11 Mar 2021 | 4:53 AM IST

Hiring by various sectors is likely to resume in 2021 after taking a beating in 2020

Updated On: 19 Feb 2021 | 1:30 AM IST

Global professional services company Accenture which has over 5 lakh employees worldwide is to cut at least 5 per cent of its 'low-performing workforce and thousands of Indians are set to lose jobs

Updated On: 26 Aug 2020 | 2:39 PM IST

The application fee for all the posts under OPSC recruitment 2019 is Rs 500

Updated On: 27 Sep 2019 | 3:10 PM IST

The study, carried out by CARE Ratings, is based on annual reports of 969 medium and large companies

Updated On: 17 Aug 2019 | 1:57 AM IST

The candidate needs to submit their Class 10 certificates with passing marks in Mathematics and English

Updated On: 11 Jul 2019 | 1:51 PM IST

'If there is no job creation, there will be discontent. Where is that visible?' asked the Union Minister

Updated On: 03 Feb 2019 | 5:19 PM IST

The biggest criticism of NDA govt has been poor pace of job creation in the country, despite flagship programmes

Updated On: 30 Jan 2019 | 4:29 PM IST