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Are Minimum Wage Laws Doing More Harm Than Good To Low-Income Workers?
Around 64% of Indian workers earn below the minimum wage. For almost half the workforce, hiring them would be illegal even after a 30% pay raise.
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UK Politician Fined For Hiring Indian Student As Nanny Illegally
A local Labour Party politician from west London has been fined 40,000 pounds after she lost an appeal against an immigration law breach for hiring an Indian student as a nanny illegally.
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Opinion | India's 12-Hour Workday Is The Wrong Kind Of Capitalism
While the rest of the world frets over artificial intelligence and how it could hollow out demand for human effort, a zeitgeist-defying idea is taking hold in India.
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Bhuwan Ribhu Becomes First Indian Lawyer To Receive World Law Congress Honour For Child Rights
For over two decades, Bhuwan Ribhu's legal fight against child exploitation earned him the World Jurist Association's Medal of Honour
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Indian-American Seema Nanda Is New Solicitor For US Labour Department
The US Senate has confirmed Indian-American civil rights lawyer Seema Nanda as the solicitor for the Department of Labour.
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App-Based Platform Workers’ Federation Writes to Labour Ministry, Demands Universal Social Security
The Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) has made a submission along with others to the Ministry of Labour and Employment over the ongoing public consultation on the Draft Code on Social Security (Central) Rules, 2020. It has also been signed by labour unions and civil society organisations to raise concerns about the implication...
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"They Kept Opening, Closing Files": PM's Swipe At Congress On Defence Projects
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said Congress governments had compromised the countrys defence interests for a long time by -playing around with files- and delaying procurement of fighter jets, arms, ammunition, and strategic equipment.
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Violence In Bengal, Protesters Detained In Chennai Amid Bharat Bandh Call
Rail and road traffic was hit in several states including Bengal, Odisha and Tamil Nadu as a 24-hour nationwide strike by ten trade unions against the central government began this morning. Violence broke out in Bengal as a police vehicle was targeted in Jadavpur and CPM MLA Sujan Chakraborty was detained. A scuffle was reported between the workers...
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Government's Warning Ahead Of Trade Unions' 24-Hour Strike: 10 Points
The government has warned central trade unions of "consequences" if they go on a proposed 24-hour nationwide strike starting 6 am Wednesday. Around 25 crore workers are expected to participate in the strike which has been called by the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) to protest the "anti-labour policies" of the BJP government and press for dem...
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'No Helmets, Goggles, Shoes': Indian Miners' Safety Being Compromised, Says Report
CHENNAI: Six out of 10 labourers toiling in quarries for granite for tiles, fireplaces and kitchen counters around the world are working in dangerous conditions to repay huge loans, charities mapping the hidden supply chain said on Wednesday. Governments are among the buyers of granite from India, one of the world’s largest exporters of the rock,...
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Are Minimum Wage Laws Doing More Harm Than Good To Low-Income Workers?
Around 64% of Indian workers earn below the minimum wage. For almost half the workforce, hiring them would be illegal even after a 30% pay raise.
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UK Politician Fined For Hiring Indian Student As Nanny Illegally
A local Labour Party politician from west London has been fined 40,000 pounds after she lost an appeal against an immigration law breach for hiring an Indian student as a nanny illegally.
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Opinion | India's 12-Hour Workday Is The Wrong Kind Of Capitalism
While the rest of the world frets over artificial intelligence and how it could hollow out demand for human effort, a zeitgeist-defying idea is taking hold in India.
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Bhuwan Ribhu Becomes First Indian Lawyer To Receive World Law Congress Honour For Child Rights
For over two decades, Bhuwan Ribhu's legal fight against child exploitation earned him the World Jurist Association's Medal of Honour
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Indian-American Seema Nanda Is New Solicitor For US Labour Department
The US Senate has confirmed Indian-American civil rights lawyer Seema Nanda as the solicitor for the Department of Labour.
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App-Based Platform Workers’ Federation Writes to Labour Ministry, Demands Universal Social Security
The Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT) has made a submission along with others to the Ministry of Labour and Employment over the ongoing public consultation on the Draft Code on Social Security (Central) Rules, 2020. It has also been signed by labour unions and civil society organisations to raise concerns about the implication...
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"They Kept Opening, Closing Files": PM's Swipe At Congress On Defence Projects
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said Congress governments had compromised the countrys defence interests for a long time by -playing around with files- and delaying procurement of fighter jets, arms, ammunition, and strategic equipment.
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Violence In Bengal, Protesters Detained In Chennai Amid Bharat Bandh Call
Rail and road traffic was hit in several states including Bengal, Odisha and Tamil Nadu as a 24-hour nationwide strike by ten trade unions against the central government began this morning. Violence broke out in Bengal as a police vehicle was targeted in Jadavpur and CPM MLA Sujan Chakraborty was detained. A scuffle was reported between the workers...
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Government's Warning Ahead Of Trade Unions' 24-Hour Strike: 10 Points
The government has warned central trade unions of "consequences" if they go on a proposed 24-hour nationwide strike starting 6 am Wednesday. Around 25 crore workers are expected to participate in the strike which has been called by the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) to protest the "anti-labour policies" of the BJP government and press for dem...
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'No Helmets, Goggles, Shoes': Indian Miners' Safety Being Compromised, Says Report
CHENNAI: Six out of 10 labourers toiling in quarries for granite for tiles, fireplaces and kitchen counters around the world are working in dangerous conditions to repay huge loans, charities mapping the hidden supply chain said on Wednesday. Governments are among the buyers of granite from India, one of the world’s largest exporters of the rock,...
