Coronavirus Job Loss

The IHS Markit India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), which is adjusted seasonally, clocked 48.1 in June 2021 against 50.8 in May 2021.

Informal sector jobs come back quickly, but formal sector and better quality job opportunities take up a year to return, according to Mahesh Vyas, CEO,Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy

Financial issues brought by last year's coronavirus pandemic have pushed about 32 million Indians out of the middle class, undoing years of economic gains, a report showed today, while job losses pushed millions into poverty.

The coronavirus pandemic took a huge toll on global jobs last year, the United Nations said Monday, with the equivalent of more than a quarter of a billion lost.

The coronavirus pandemic has worsened existing income inequalities between India's super-rich and its crores of unskilled, and often unemployed, men and women, non-profit group Oxfam said Monday in a report to be tabled at the World Economic Forum at Switzerland's Davos.

The US economy shed 140,000 jobs in the final month of the year, according to government data released Friday, a sign the recovery from the pandemic's damage has stalled.

A small cloth doll named Covida, designed by the Lambadi women artisans in Tamil Nadu has turned into an inspiration, spreading a message of hope and positivity amid the gloom of job losses because of the coronavirus pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic has hit women worldwide with job losses and closures of childcare centers. Yet a surprising bright spot is emerging: India's $200 billion technology services industry, where new rules are expected to provide female workers with a broad swath of flexible work arrangements and fresh employment opportunities.

Jobs are returning in India as the economy recovers from lockdown-related losses, according to the head of a top staffing firm. Quess Corp, which claims to be India's largest private-sector employer providing staffing services to companies, saw its workforce rise in October for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak. Its numbers had dropped ...

Facebook has launched a seven-minute video that touches upon the issue of job losses amid the coronavirus pandemic and the role of social media in such times. Heartwarming and gut-wrenching in equal parts, this short film, released around Diwali, follows Pooja - the proprietor of Pooja Milk Centre in Amritsar, Punjab.

Still, September was the seventh straight month that activity had contracted, the longest such stretch since a 10-month run to early 2014.

Taking a dig at the government, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today said its "well planned fight" against coronavirus has allegedly put India in an "abyss" of GDP reduction of 24 per cent, 12 crore job losses, 15.5 lakh crore additional stressed loans and globally highest daily COVID-19 cases and deaths.

24-year-old Vineeth is a hotel management graduate from Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram. But with the hotel industry severely hit due to the coronavirus pandemic, he now earns a living as a daily wager by cutting trees. He lost his job at a hotel in Kerala's tourist town of Munnar earlier this year.

India's gross domestic product or GDP is widely expected to have shrunk in the April-June period, as data covering the quarter fully captures the damage caused by the fast-spreading coronavirus pandemic. Many economists expect the country to suffer its worst quarterly de-growth since the mid-1990s, with estimates of contraction as bad as 25.9 per c...

A woman techie in Hyderabad, forced to join her family in selling vegetables after losing her job during the coronavirus lockdown, has received support from many, including actor Sonu Sood, who has offered her a job. Sonu Sood has been reaching out to people hit hard by the lockdown and also donated a tractor to a farmer's family in neighbouring An...

The IHS Markit India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), which is adjusted seasonally, clocked 48.1 in June 2021 against 50.8 in May 2021.

Informal sector jobs come back quickly, but formal sector and better quality job opportunities take up a year to return, according to Mahesh Vyas, CEO,Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy

Financial issues brought by last year's coronavirus pandemic have pushed about 32 million Indians out of the middle class, undoing years of economic gains, a report showed today, while job losses pushed millions into poverty.

The coronavirus pandemic took a huge toll on global jobs last year, the United Nations said Monday, with the equivalent of more than a quarter of a billion lost.

The coronavirus pandemic has worsened existing income inequalities between India's super-rich and its crores of unskilled, and often unemployed, men and women, non-profit group Oxfam said Monday in a report to be tabled at the World Economic Forum at Switzerland's Davos.

The US economy shed 140,000 jobs in the final month of the year, according to government data released Friday, a sign the recovery from the pandemic's damage has stalled.

A small cloth doll named Covida, designed by the Lambadi women artisans in Tamil Nadu has turned into an inspiration, spreading a message of hope and positivity amid the gloom of job losses because of the coronavirus pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic has hit women worldwide with job losses and closures of childcare centers. Yet a surprising bright spot is emerging: India's $200 billion technology services industry, where new rules are expected to provide female workers with a broad swath of flexible work arrangements and fresh employment opportunities.

Jobs are returning in India as the economy recovers from lockdown-related losses, according to the head of a top staffing firm. Quess Corp, which claims to be India's largest private-sector employer providing staffing services to companies, saw its workforce rise in October for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak. Its numbers had dropped ...

Facebook has launched a seven-minute video that touches upon the issue of job losses amid the coronavirus pandemic and the role of social media in such times. Heartwarming and gut-wrenching in equal parts, this short film, released around Diwali, follows Pooja - the proprietor of Pooja Milk Centre in Amritsar, Punjab.

Still, September was the seventh straight month that activity had contracted, the longest such stretch since a 10-month run to early 2014.

Taking a dig at the government, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today said its "well planned fight" against coronavirus has allegedly put India in an "abyss" of GDP reduction of 24 per cent, 12 crore job losses, 15.5 lakh crore additional stressed loans and globally highest daily COVID-19 cases and deaths.

24-year-old Vineeth is a hotel management graduate from Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram. But with the hotel industry severely hit due to the coronavirus pandemic, he now earns a living as a daily wager by cutting trees. He lost his job at a hotel in Kerala's tourist town of Munnar earlier this year.

India's gross domestic product or GDP is widely expected to have shrunk in the April-June period, as data covering the quarter fully captures the damage caused by the fast-spreading coronavirus pandemic. Many economists expect the country to suffer its worst quarterly de-growth since the mid-1990s, with estimates of contraction as bad as 25.9 per c...

A woman techie in Hyderabad, forced to join her family in selling vegetables after losing her job during the coronavirus lockdown, has received support from many, including actor Sonu Sood, who has offered her a job. Sonu Sood has been reaching out to people hit hard by the lockdown and also donated a tractor to a farmer's family in neighbouring An...