Worker Wages

US employers especially in the service sector may have to raise wages as the economy adjusts to a labor shortage, but that would be a "good thing" for workers, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Wednesday.

The Delhi High Court has sought the city government's stand on why an application for issuance of a ration card by a daily wage worker has remained pending for eight years.

East Delhi Mayor Shyam Sunder Aggarwal has given anticipatory approval to a proposal to regularise daily wagers who were engaged on compassionate grounds up to 31 March, 2006.

Amazon has settled with two employees it fired last year who publically criticised the company over working conditions of warehouse workers during COVID-19.

The Teamsters workers' union has launched campaigns to organise employees in at least nine Canadian facilities of Amazon.

Barely a couple of days after the Kerala High Court directed the State to get rid of the practice of 'nokku-kooli' which literally means 'gawking wages', a truck of ISRO was blocked on Sunday by workers allegedly demanding the wages.

Kia Motors and its workers' Union reached a tentative wage deal early this week without staging a strike amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Trade unions at Coal India Ltd., the world's largest miner of the fuel, have demanded a 50% increase in workers' wages, potentially pushing up costs of the fuel that helps produce more than two-thirds of India's electricity.

An Indian arbitrator has issued an order asking Nissan Motor Co to pay its factory workers additional wages, despite warnings from the automaker that a higher payout could make its business "unviable in the long run".

Nissan had told the court its business in India could become "unviable in the long run" if it were to give in to its workers' demands of higher pay

Only 39 percent of Assam's tea garden workers are permanent while 61 percent are contractual labourers, a study by Oxfam India said.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that MGNREGA workers are not even getting their wages in some states and asked the government what kind of "achche din" (good days) are these.

Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope today announced that ASHA workers will get an increment of Rs 1,000 in their wages and Rs 500 as Covid allowance per month from July besides a smartphone.

Government has said that the expert group formed to recommend fixation of minimum wages will submit its recommendations as early as possible.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday held a meeting with representatives of Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha and other tea bodies and discussed issues pertaining to wage fixation.

US employers especially in the service sector may have to raise wages as the economy adjusts to a labor shortage, but that would be a "good thing" for workers, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Wednesday.

The Delhi High Court has sought the city government's stand on why an application for issuance of a ration card by a daily wage worker has remained pending for eight years.

East Delhi Mayor Shyam Sunder Aggarwal has given anticipatory approval to a proposal to regularise daily wagers who were engaged on compassionate grounds up to 31 March, 2006.

Amazon has settled with two employees it fired last year who publically criticised the company over working conditions of warehouse workers during COVID-19.

The Teamsters workers' union has launched campaigns to organise employees in at least nine Canadian facilities of Amazon.

Barely a couple of days after the Kerala High Court directed the State to get rid of the practice of 'nokku-kooli' which literally means 'gawking wages', a truck of ISRO was blocked on Sunday by workers allegedly demanding the wages.

Kia Motors and its workers' Union reached a tentative wage deal early this week without staging a strike amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Trade unions at Coal India Ltd., the world's largest miner of the fuel, have demanded a 50% increase in workers' wages, potentially pushing up costs of the fuel that helps produce more than two-thirds of India's electricity.

An Indian arbitrator has issued an order asking Nissan Motor Co to pay its factory workers additional wages, despite warnings from the automaker that a higher payout could make its business "unviable in the long run".

Nissan had told the court its business in India could become "unviable in the long run" if it were to give in to its workers' demands of higher pay

Only 39 percent of Assam's tea garden workers are permanent while 61 percent are contractual labourers, a study by Oxfam India said.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that MGNREGA workers are not even getting their wages in some states and asked the government what kind of "achche din" (good days) are these.

Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope today announced that ASHA workers will get an increment of Rs 1,000 in their wages and Rs 500 as Covid allowance per month from July besides a smartphone.

Government has said that the expert group formed to recommend fixation of minimum wages will submit its recommendations as early as possible.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday held a meeting with representatives of Assam Chah Mazdoor Sangha and other tea bodies and discussed issues pertaining to wage fixation.