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Qatar raises minimum wage by 25%, lifts restrictions on changing jobs

The new minimum wage, which comes into effect in six months and is 250 riyals more a month than the old one, is non-discriminatory and applies to all workers

India 72nd on global list with average monthly wage of Rs 32,800: Report

Switzerland, where the average wage converted into rupees amounts to Rs 4,49,000 ($5,989), topped the ranking, while in Cuba the average wage is the lowest at Rs 2,700 ($36)

Hope force: India's army of 600,000 virus-hunting women goes on strike

ASHA workers act as a stopgap in the country's porous health care system, delivering assistance from maternal health to immunization in its vast rural hinterland

'Treat with urgency': SC tells govt about pleas against compulsory wages

Home ministry has repealed order asking companies to pay wages during lockdown, but court says matter is larger and 'lot of people are affected'.

Tirupur textile workers want ESIC to pay minimum wage as units remain shut

Write to PM Modi, Finance Minister to express their woes; Tirupur has about 500,000 direct and indirect employees

Boris Johnson announces plans to raise minimum wage by 6.2% from April

A 6.2-per cent increase from April takes the so-called national living wage for workers aged 25 and over from £8.21 to a minimum £8.72 ($10.79 to $11.52, 9.63 euros to 10.27 euros).

India's demand funk: It has people but where are the consumers

Consumer spending fell in real terms in 2017-18, its first decline in four decades, Business Standard reported Friday.

Minimum wage for workers likely to increase in next three months

Children education, medical costs set to be included in minimum wage

With Rs 178 as minimum wage, new Wage Code will push migrants into poverty

The landmark Code on Wages, which was passed on August 2, 2019, will have many consequences for the lives and livelihoods of millions of India's migrant workers who

How minimum wage could double to Rs 375/day if govt accepts proposed norms

The new formula, arrived at by using new evidence on how and how much households consume, suggests increasing the number of 'consumption units' per household to 3.6

Minimum wage for workers may rise by up to five times in 10 states

The government last year set up an expert committee to determine a new methodology for minimum wage

Special teams to enforce hiked minimum wages: Delhi Labour Min Gopal Rai

Anil Baijal had approved the increased minimum wages in the city

Wasted labour

Raising minimum wage is no compensation for deeper reforms

Minimum wage: CITU accuses Centre of 'misleading' workers

Minimum wage fixed by the Centre is not universally applicable as labour is on the concurrent list of the Constitution

Govt hikes minimum wage for workers as union strike nears

The likely financial implications of the bonus move translate into Rs 1,920 crore per annum

Govt raises minimum wage at Rs 350 a day as union strike nears

Central government employees will get bonus at revised rates for two years

Order soon for Rs 10k minimum wage for contract workers

Bandaru Dattatreya said to make reforms Centre will issue an executive order as opposition is not cooperating