Showing posts with label Labour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Labour. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 04, 2024

Centre Preparing National Policy to Boost Women’s Workforce Participation

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  The Government of India is developing a national policy to enhance women’s participation in the workforce, which focuses on creating a sup...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

All work and no wage

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  Demands for respectable academic contracts with adequate living wage and social security are not surprising Underpaid scientific labour ha...
Friday, March 31, 2023

Gaping gap: Editorial on pay gap between men and women

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  Psychological stress is also the result of embedded discrimination An important sign of gender inequality across the world is the pay gap ...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

What we don’t know about working Indian women

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  According to the recently released Global Gender Gap Report 2022, India ranks 135 out of 146 countries and it has slightly improved its po...
Tuesday, February 07, 2023

Good idea: Editorial on living wage for workers

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  The concept of the living wage is distinct from, but closely related to, the notion of the much talked about universal basic income The id...
Monday, January 02, 2023

Proposal to Shift from “Minimum” to “Living” Wages

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  The Union Labour Ministry is currently mulling to shift from the “minimum wages” to “living wages” in a bid to bring more people from pove...
Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Wage crisis: Editorial on Global Wage Report 2022

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  The International Labour Organization has come out with the latest Global Wage Report 2022. Over the past two years, labour markets have w...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Uneven pattern: Editorial on variations in rural wages

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  Indian agriculture is well-known for a number of complex problems that contribute toward poverty, inequality, and low productivity. Recent...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Workers of the world are in need of a better deal in today’s times

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  The last four decades of globalization and technological innovation have been a boon for those with the skills, wealth and connections to ...
Monday, October 04, 2021

What the continued distress in informal labour market says

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  Ishan Bakshi writes: It points towards a continuing divergence in the fortunes of the formal and informal parts of the economy. Economic d...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Regularly available, credible data on formal and informal work force is needed to inform policy, plug the gaps

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  It provides policymakers not only a sense of the extent of labour market distress during periods of economic upheaval, but also an underst...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

The right to sit must be the beginning

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  The lack of access to seating works as a strong impediment to women’s participation in India’s workforce. On September 13, the Tamil Nadu ...
Wednesday, April 07, 2021

An effective migrant labour policy must consider where existing labour laws fail

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  The Niti Aayog’s draft Migrant Labour Policy is a clear statement of intent to better recognise migrants’ contribution to the economy and ...
Friday, November 13, 2020

Can the right to work be made real in India?

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  It can be made workable if there is political will and fiscal resources As economies around the world struggle to recover from the double ...