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Apple delays plan to have staff in office three days a week from May 23

Apple was set to require employees to work from the office on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning next week -- a policy that had been controversial among some staff.

24 sanitation workers' fatalities in 2021, down from 118 in 2019: Govt

The number of deaths occurring due to hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tanks has substantially come down in the country, said Union Minister Ramdas Athawale in the Rajya Sabha

About 60 Amazon workers stage walkouts over salary, break times

More than 60 workers across three Amazon delivery stations staged a walkout to demand a $3 raise and a return to 20-minute breaks, according to one of the labour organisers leading the effort.

US: Surging omicron infections and worker shortage likely hurt hiring

Last month's huge wave of omicron infections is thought to have weakened hiring in January, though the pullback is considered all but sure to prove a temporary one.

Amazon paid employees to tweet nice things about the company: Report

E-commerce giant Amazon has shut down a controversial influence campaign in which it paid its employees to tweet nice things about the company, Financial Times reported on Thursday.

Expo 2020's workers face hardships despite Dubai's promises

Intent on making a flawless impression as the first host of the world's fair in the Middle East, Dubai poured billions of dollars in the pandemic-delayed Expo 2020, hoping to attract 25 million visito

Enrolments on e-Shram portal set to hit 100-million mark this week

The number of registered unorganised workers on e-Shram portal is all set to hit the 10-crore mark this week with total enrolments nearing 9.7 crore, as per latest data. The Ministry of Labour & Employment has developed e-Shram portal -- a national database of the unorganised workers seeded with Aadhaar. The portal was launched on August 26, 2021. The portal showed that as many as 13.97 lakh workers registered on Sunday, while the number was 14.95 lakh on Saturday. Thus, the enrolments can hit the 10-crore mark this week itself, considering that on an average 10 lakh workers are getting registered on a single day. The latest data on the portal showed that as many as 9.7 crore workers are registered on e-Shram portal which includes 72.46 per cent from socially backward categories like Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and other backward class, while 27.54 per cent are from the general category. Moreover, 89.68 per cent of registered informal sector workers provided their bank ...

MGNREGS will need Rs 32K-crore more aid to meet demand: Experts

But a supplementary budgetary support of Rs 50,000 cr would be appropriate to fulfil all requirements of this year: Activists

New Zealand expands vaccine mandate, 40% of workers to get fully vaccinated

The changes will mean that about 40 per cent of all New Zealand workers will need to get fully vaccinated against the coronavirus or risk losing their jobs, up from about 15 per cent previously.

81% received full wages in first wave of Covid-19 pandemic: Survey

70% of firms didn't cut jobs; in fact, health sector increased employment

Bumpy road ahead for Ford India as talks with unions on separation flop

Workers at both units set to get into a protracted feud with the management over closure terms and job security

Tyson Foods offers front-line workers paid sick leave; 75% vaccinated

Tyson Foods is offering its front-line workers paid sick leave for the first time, part of an agreement that secured union support for its mandat

e-portal for database on unorganised workers to come up on Thursday

Single-point reference to help authorities track workers in informal sector

Sharp uptick in blue-collar employment likely in 2nd half of 2021: Report

Maharashtra may be biggest contributor, according to a report

Covid-19 pandemic: Tales of migrant workers betray a year of woes

Their lives thrown into disarray, they struggle with lack of aid, jobs and vaccine

Manufacturing trouble: Covid robs Moradabad's Brass City of its polish

SMEs struggling, recovery slow; rise in key raw material cost hurting exporters

Almost 92% casual workers didn't get wages during lockdown: SWAN survey

The survey, which was conducted among 1,396 worker groups, adding up to 8,023 people that included 4,836 women and children, showed that 76 per cent of the workers had less than Rs 200 left with them

Lockdowns again: Migrant crisis to job cuts, fear has come back too soon

The lockdown will hurt urban employment in April or beyond

Delhi night curfew: Shops being closed at 8 pm, employees fear job loss

With the first night curfew of the year being imposed in the national capital, the shops at various places here are being closed at 8 pm while the workers are fearing job loss

Coolies on the frontline

Book review of The Coolie's Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict (1914-21)