Wages and sustainability

Aruna Roy’s decision to quit the National Advisory Council is the unfortunate corollary to the UPA government’s denial to pay minimum wages to MGNREGA workers. The Prime Minister’s defiance to pay heed to his party chief Sonia Gandhi’s ...

HCMC The National Wage Council will replace the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs to do the job of making decisions on minimum wages from next year onwards. The council, which was set up by the Government in its Decree 49/2013 and ...

BOGOTA -- After finishing a complete audit of Venezuela's contested April 14 presidential race, the nation's electoral council said there was no evidence of fraud or error in the vote that gave President Nicolás Maduro a narrow win over his rival. ...

The city Law Department says the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter does not allow City Council to enforce minimum "living wage" requirements on Philadelphia International Airport subcontractors -- only on businesses with direct city contracts. ...

They bill themselves as "the real border security experts," but the National Border Patrol Council the union representing U.S. Border Patrol agents has been uniquely silent as Congress prepares to debate immigration. Unions representing the other ...

The Editors Council on Sunday expressed concern over the rise in duty on import of newsprint in the proposed national budget for 2013-14 fiscal and urged the prime minister and the finance minister to withdraw the proposed duty hike. A statement ...

For the nine years of the United Progressive Alliance government, the National Advisory Council led by Sonia Gandhi and including many well-known people from the corporate and non-governmental organisation world - mostly those with a left-of-centre ...

President Obama is expected to nominate former National Security Council aide Samantha Power to replace Susan Rice as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations -- making her, arguably, the most influential former journalist in government. Since ...

During the fall of 1963, Park Chung Hee, then chairman of the Supreme Council for National Reconstruction, felt extremely frustrated. The United States stopped its agricultural product assistance after he broke his promise to hand over power to a ...