Page 5 - Labourer

BS Number Wise: India's labour, capital paradox

Productivity in agriculture and eight other sectors is increasing but employment is falling and there is no significant capital investment

BS Number Wise: How many Indians? Census suspense beyond population size

Is the country getting older; how is the labour force faring: important questions about demographics await answers

Employment data disappoints in November

According to World Bank's modelled ILO estimates, only 17 countries are worse than India on LPR

Delhi govt transfers Rs 5,000 each to 295,000 construction workers

Delhi govt deposited Rs 5,000 each in bank accounts of 295,000 construction workers who have been affected by ban on construction activities in national capital in view of high pollution levels

Suicides by agri labourers up 18%; Kerala, Karnataka show maximum increase

Kerala, Karnataka, MP show maximum increase in 2020

Singapore's companies laud govt's move to allow workers from India, S Asia

The companies have applauded the government's move to reopen borders to India, Bangladesh and other South Asian countries

Indian farmers are now predominantly labourers, national survey suggests

Farmer households earned more from wages than from cultivation in 2019, as the latter stagnated

From farms to the kitchen sink

Excess or seasonal labour released from agriculture usually finds its way to construction sites. In the circumstances labour seems to have found employment in the household sector

Statsguru: Five charts explain how big is India's labour force

The size of India's labour force is likely to have reached 540 million in 2019-20.

India making efforts to reduce gender gap in labour force: Gangwar

India is making collective efforts to reduce gender gaps in labour force participation, Union Minister Santosh Gangwar said on Wednesday. He said the country is ensuring education, training, skilling, entrepreneurship development and equal pay for equal work. Gangwar was delivering Ministerial Address on Declaration and Employment Working Group Priorities at G20 Labour and Employment Ministers' Meeting. The new Code on Wages 2019 shall reduce gender-based discrimination in wages, recruitment and conditions of employment, a labour ministry statement quoted him as saying. Listing the steps taken by the government, he said women are entitled for all types of work in all establishments and employers have to ensure their safety and provisions for working hours. Women can now work even during night hours, Gangwar said, adding that the duration of paid maternity leave has been increased from 12 weeks to 26 weeks. Further, the labour minister said Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana provides ...

Labourers 'exploited' in defence projects; CM Soren to talk to Rajnath

Claiming that migrant labourers of Jharkhand working in high-altitude defence projects are exploited by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), Chief Minister Hemant Soren said that he will take up the matter with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, as the situation has not changed despite repeated communications. The chief minister demanded 'martyr' status for the labourers who die laying infrastructure for the armed forces in inhospitable terrains, and claimed that labourers return to the state with bitter memories and do not want to work again for the BRO because of the undignified treatment they get. In an interview to PTI, Soren said that once the state gets over the COVID-19 crisis, he will personally hold meetings with chief ministers and administrators of various states and Union territories such as Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh and pitch for a robust mechanism to check workers' exploitation. The BRO, however, denied the accusations of ...

US senator chides Apple, Nike for 'using forced labour' from China

A US senator on Thursday slammed top American companies including Amazon, Nike and Apple for using forced labour from China, accusing them of making Americans complicit in Beijing crimes against Uyghurs.Speaking at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on China's crackdown on Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in its western Xinjiang region, Republican Senator Marco Rubio said: "For far too long companies like Nike and Apple and Amazon and Coca-Cola were using forced labour.""They were benefiting from forced labour or sourcing from suppliers that were suspected of using forced labour," Rubio said. "These companies, sadly, were making all of us complicit in these crimes. That is why it is critical to Senate quickly passed our Uyghur forced labour prevention act to ensure that the goods made by forced labour or Uyghurs forced labour to enter our markets and make all American unwilling accomplice," he added.Recently, several companies including H & M and Nike said that they ..

NHRC issues more advisories on bonded labourers, migrant workers amid Covid

In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Human Rights Commission has issued more advisories to various ministries and states on the adverse impact faced by labourers and migrant informal sector workers, officials said on Tuesday. The country has been reeling under a devastating second wave of the pandemic since April, triggering lockdowns in states and Union Territories to combat COVID-19. "The NHRC, keeping in view the adverse effects of the pandemic on different sections of society, has issued three more advisories to the Centre, states and union territories as part of its 2.0 series of Covid-19 pandemic advisories," the NHRC said in a statement. These advisories are -- right to mental health; identifying, releasing and rehabilitating bonded labourers; and safeguarding the rights of informal workers during the pandemic. The Commission, in a letter through its Secretary General, Bimbadhar Pradhan to the Secretaries of Union ministries of health and family welfare; labour &

Covid-19: Labour crunch hits roads construction and realty business

States like Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, where the severity of Covid-19 infections is high, are reporting a higher loss of on-site labourers

Xi Jinping's shifting China is compelling investors to run, hide or hire

Jinping's government endorsed a boycott against retailers like Hennes & Mauritz AB and slapped sanctions on a range of organizations over statements made on alleged forced labor in Xinjiang

India's first Labour Movement museum to open in Kerala's Alappuzha

The country's first Labour Movement Museum, showcasing the history of world labour movement, would be launched in Kerala's houseboat tourism hub, Alappuzha

This ex-Apple techie is helping India's blue-collar workers find jobs

Nirmit Parikh went undercover as a factory hand in Ahmedabad for a few days before the lockdown, to understand the ground realities of grey and blue-collar workers

Show proof of reskilling or refund: Retrenched workers face Hobson's choice

If they are unable to reskill within a fixed period of time, they will have to return the money given to them by the government

Global labour income may have declined by $3.5 trn in first 3 quarters: ILO

Global labour income is estimated to have declined by 10.7% or $3.5 trn in the first three quarters of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Labour Organization said

Work for creating employment opportunities for labourers: Bhagwat to cadre

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat said that the Sangh volunteers should work towards creating employment opportunities for labourers