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It had earlier proposed cutting it down to Rs 250 crore due to slow progress in enrollment of new employees. The finance ministry may likely trim budgetary support towards the Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Protsahan Yojana (PMRPY) scheme, a flagship programme for incentivising job creation, substantially for the present fiscal year in the Union Budget to be presented on Thursday.   Government sources said the finance ministry had informed the labour ministry of a reduction in the budgetary ...

The government has extended the facility of hiring workers on fixed term employment to all sectors for improving the ease of doing business for players intending to hire people for completing specified projects, tasks or orders. This facility was available ...

At the 47th ILC, scheduled for February 26 and 27 in Delhi, trade unions and employers were to discuss key issues related to employment and social security coverage to workers The Union government has postponed the Indian Labour Conference, which was to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.   The decision was apparently taken to avoid an embarrassment, as central trade unions had threatened a boycott of the event. “The ILC has been postponed. Inconvenience is ...

Instead of mechanically consolidating all labour laws into one, provisions of all labour laws should be relooked in terms of their substance. The irrelevant and archaic provisions have to be fixed, says Aparajita Gupta. 'I propose to frame a uniform Employment Code for the state, containing all the labour laws in force in the State. "The proposed Employment Code shall set out the framework for terms of employment and service of all the workers except domestic workers and agricultural labour ...

The decision to drop the proposal was taken last month during a meeting that Finance Minister Arun Jaitley held with labour ministry officials. The government has dropped a contentious proposal to allow factories with a big workforce to retrench and layoff workers or shut shop without seeking its nod. Earlier this week, the labour and employment ministry had circulated a Cabinet note for inter-ministerial consultations on the proposed Code on Industrial Relations Bill 2018, set to be ...

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The Centre has, however, retained its proposal to curb flash strikes as workers in all factories will be required to give employers a strike notice of at least two weeks after the Bill becomes a law. The Union government has dropped a proposal to allow only employees working in factories becoming office-bearers of trade unions in those units.   The government had proposed the move in the Code on Industrial Relations Bill, 2015, in an attempt to keeping a check on “politicisation of ...

Mumbai: Women in urban India turn down better employment opportunities further away from home in favour of lower-paid local opportunities as the public transport system is often unreliable or unaffordable, according to a 2017 study by the Institute for ...

This will help employers keep a track of the diseases workers could suffer from while doing their jobs.Somesh Jha reports. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The Centre has proposed to make it compulsory for companies to conduct health checks of factory workers every year. This is part of a draft code on occupational safety, health and working conditions, put forward by the ministry of labour and employment. The government is trying to merge and reclassify the country's 44 labour laws into ...