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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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"Your Last Working Day": Oracle's 6 am Layoff Email That Ended Thousands of Jobs
The abrupt communication, combined with reports of immediate system access revocation, has intensified concerns about how the layoffs were handled.
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India Has 25,001 Licensed Pilots, Centre Lacks Data On Those Seeking Jobs
India currently has 25,001 pilots with valid licences, the government informed the Lok Sabha. But the Centre also admitted it has no central record of how many of these pilots are actually employed
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Tata Consultancy Services Announces Wage Hikes Amid 12,000 Layoffs
India's largest IT services company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) informed employees that it will roll-out wage hikes for about 80 per cent of workforce, covering mid to junior levels.
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Opinion: Rethinking How We Measure Women's Workforce Participation
Female labour force participation in India continues to be dominated by high informality and precarity, and is frequently undertaken as a consequence of household economic distress.
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IT-BPM Industry to Add 3 Lakh Jobs by March 2023 Amid Rapid Adoption of Emerging Technology: Report
The Information Technology and Business Process Management (IT-BPM) industry in India could generate about 3 lakh new jobs in the country by March 2023, increasing the headcount from 5.1 million to 5.4 million, according to a report by TeamLease Digital, based on a survey of more than 100 employers, insights from engineering colleges across 500 cit...
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Harley-Davidson Decides To Discontinue India Operations
Harley-Davidson has informed its employees of additional restructuring costs of $75 million which includes exiting the Indian market.
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1.6 Billion Risk Losing Jobs Due To Coronavirus Pandemic: UN Labour Body
Almost 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy, nearly half of the global workforce, face an immediate danger of losing their livelihoods due to the continued sharp decline in working hours because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the International Labour Organization has said.
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Social Distancing A Luxury For Workers In India On $2 A Day
The quandary facing India's informal workforce of 450 million people is one of the starkest examples of how social inequality threatens to undermine virus containment efforts around the world. From undocumented minimum-wage workers in the world's richest postcodes to job-seekers flooding into swelling metropolises, the urban poor often have limited...
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Nasscom's Skill Development Platform To Benefit 20 Lakh Techies: 10 Things To Know
For the benefit of 20 lakh technology professions and another 20 lakh potential employees and students over the next few years, PM Narendra Modi today launched Nasscoms platform for skill development in eight technologies, including artificial intelligence. The platform called as FutureSkills aims to re-skill and up-skill the existing and emerging ...
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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.
-
"Your Last Working Day": Oracle's 6 am Layoff Email That Ended Thousands of Jobs
The abrupt communication, combined with reports of immediate system access revocation, has intensified concerns about how the layoffs were handled.
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India Has 25,001 Licensed Pilots, Centre Lacks Data On Those Seeking Jobs
India currently has 25,001 pilots with valid licences, the government informed the Lok Sabha. But the Centre also admitted it has no central record of how many of these pilots are actually employed
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Tata Consultancy Services Announces Wage Hikes Amid 12,000 Layoffs
India's largest IT services company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) informed employees that it will roll-out wage hikes for about 80 per cent of workforce, covering mid to junior levels.
-
Opinion: Rethinking How We Measure Women's Workforce Participation
Female labour force participation in India continues to be dominated by high informality and precarity, and is frequently undertaken as a consequence of household economic distress.
-
IT-BPM Industry to Add 3 Lakh Jobs by March 2023 Amid Rapid Adoption of Emerging Technology: Report
The Information Technology and Business Process Management (IT-BPM) industry in India could generate about 3 lakh new jobs in the country by March 2023, increasing the headcount from 5.1 million to 5.4 million, according to a report by TeamLease Digital, based on a survey of more than 100 employers, insights from engineering colleges across 500 cit...
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Harley-Davidson Decides To Discontinue India Operations
Harley-Davidson has informed its employees of additional restructuring costs of $75 million which includes exiting the Indian market.
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1.6 Billion Risk Losing Jobs Due To Coronavirus Pandemic: UN Labour Body
Almost 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy, nearly half of the global workforce, face an immediate danger of losing their livelihoods due to the continued sharp decline in working hours because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the International Labour Organization has said.
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Social Distancing A Luxury For Workers In India On $2 A Day
The quandary facing India's informal workforce of 450 million people is one of the starkest examples of how social inequality threatens to undermine virus containment efforts around the world. From undocumented minimum-wage workers in the world's richest postcodes to job-seekers flooding into swelling metropolises, the urban poor often have limited...
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Nasscom's Skill Development Platform To Benefit 20 Lakh Techies: 10 Things To Know
For the benefit of 20 lakh technology professions and another 20 lakh potential employees and students over the next few years, PM Narendra Modi today launched Nasscoms platform for skill development in eight technologies, including artificial intelligence. The platform called as FutureSkills aims to re-skill and up-skill the existing and emerging ...
