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A two-pronged approach for creating demand for labour through development and improving technical know-how was suggested as a solution to reduce unemployment among youngsters by experts here on Sunday. As mismatch between educational qualification and market ...

1:14 AM [WASHINGTON] The technology industry and organised labour are locked in a fight that threatens to complicate the US Senate's

Housed in cramped huts, the workers from Odisha are paid a mere Rs. 200 a week, in gross violation of labour laws For the last six months, 22-year-old Gowtham Chatria and his family from Odisha have been toiling hard in a brick kiln at Dundigal. Despite each ...

6:58pm BST By DUBAI (Reuters) - Thousands of workers employed by Dubai's largest construction firm, Arabtec, stayed away from work on Sunday to back wage demands, a rare labour protest in the Gulf emirate, where trade unions are banned, staff said.

* Wage demands come as costs soar, prices fall * Labour unrest continuing amid union turf war * NUM is seeking hikes of up to 60 pct for entry-level miners (Adds chamber response) By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG, May 19 (Reuters) - South Africa's ...

The government saves close to Rs 70,000 crore each year by underpaying or not paying six million workers it employs to implement its social sector schemes. This is according to a calculation by the (Citu). These workers subsidise the government by ...

Srinagar, May 19: A labourer from West Bengal died accidentally while digging a borewell in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, police said here today. Mujeeb Ahmad Sheikh (30) died when he came under the slide while digging a bore well in the compound of ...

The Indian Labour Conference, the apex forum comprising the government, employees and employers, on Saturday recommended to the government to enact laws to ensure "right to work" and "right to pension" to the entire

Her voice had a rough texture to it, like the sort a nail makes when rubbed against sandpaper. She laboured with each word she spoke with an equally-sagging will. She struggled to cope with the excruciating pain associated with old age and malady. ...