Tag: Labour
LS Takes Up Maternity Benefit Bill For Debate
The Lok Sabha on Thursday took up for discussion a bill to increase the maternity leave of women to 26 weeks from the present 12 weeks.....
GDP Up But Job Security Falls: Only 16% Earn Regular Wage
At 19, Dinesh Manjhi is the breadwinner for his family -- three siblings and a 55-year-old mother. But his tryst with adulthood actually began at 12, when his father took him on a 1,500-km journey from their home in Bihar to a farm in Punjab to work as a seasonal worker. This way, he added a valuable extra to what the father saved to bring back home every season.....
UP To Train 6,005 Child Labourers In Lucknow
The Uttar Pradesh government is working on an ambitious scheme to train and make child labourers employment ready, an official said on Friday. ....
British PM Calls Snap Election On June 8
British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday announced a snap General Election on June 8, seeking a stronger mandate in talks over leaving the European Union (EU).....
Government Nod To 8.65% Interest On EPF For 2016-17
The Central government has approved 8.65 per cent interest rate on the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) deposits for 2016-17, officials said on Friday. ....
Tony Blair To Return To Politics
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has decided to again get involved in politics and take an active part in trying to shape the policy debate on Brexit.....
Not Just Talk, Better Policies Needed To Better Workers' Condition: Sonia Gandhi
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday said the condition of workers will not change "only by talk, slogans and promises", and the government needs to bring in new policies and better programmes to make a difference to their lives.....
UK's Prince Philip To Retire From Public Engagements
Prince Philip, 95-year-old husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, will retire from his royal duties and stop carrying out public engagements later this year, Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday. ....
Bonded As Domestic Worker, 8-year-old Rescued From Engineer's Home
An 8-year-old girl, confined as a domestic worker at a software engineer's home, was rescued from Hyderabad on Wednesday. ....
'Fake News' Word Of The Year For 2017
The Collins English Dictionary has called the term "fake news", frequently used by US President Donald Trump, as 2017's Word of the Year due to its "ubiquitous presence", the media reported on Thursday.....
