These employees are not eligible to draw Transport Allowances as by choosing to work from home, they had not incurred any expenditure on commuting.

Top-down reforms since the demonetisation of 2016 have already derailed the economy and brought misery to millions, yet the great zeal to do more of the same amidst protests from several segments of population demonstrate that the intent is far from public welfare

With this, most of industrial, banking activities and road movements will be hampered. A joint platform of ten central unions says all preparations have been done as more than 25 crore workers are expected to participate in strike 

The All India Bank Employees' Association (AIBEA) also announced its decision to participate; strike notice has been issued in most parts of the country by associations of government employees in the public sector, as well as the independent sectoral federations.

Bank strike on November 26: The AIBEA, which has four lakh bank employees from several public and old private sector banks and few foreign banks as its members, represents majority of the banks except State Bank of India and Indian Overseas Bank

The economic crisis following the pandemic and untimely national lockdown have been used by both the central and state governments to push through unilateral measures that undermine workers' interest by dismantling critical protections

RSS affiliated trade union Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) has called for nationwide protests against PM Narendra Modi-led government's recent amendments to the labour laws

Labour unions have opposed new rule which allows companies with upto 300 employees to lay-off staff and close the firm without government approval. The threshold for this was 100 employees earlier

The Code on Industrial Relations allows companies with up to 300 workers to fire them without prior government approval; they also make it difficult for unions to go on strike without prior 60-day notice

Students will get to work on projects in cutting edge technology areas such as artificial intelligence (including vision tech), machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G networks to solve real-world problems

The organisation welcomed the government decision to fix the duration of working time to 8 hours a day instead of the 9 hours prescribed in the current Minimum Wages Act and the previous draft of the Wage Code

Sector-wise demonstrations will be held at state capitals, district headquarters, tahsil/ block centers and also in all big industrial estates

The unions, including RSS-affiliated Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), of Coal India have also decided to go for a day's strike on August 18, the last date for submitting bids for the auctioning of 41 blocks

CIL despatched 5.78 lakh tonnes on the first day of strike. This is around 42 per cent of the normal off-take of 14 LTs/day, as per referred calculation

Five trade unions, including RSS-affiliated Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), working in Coal India Ltd (CIL) went on a three-day strike from Thursday to protest the decision of the government to start commercial coal mining

\"I have just noticed that the Union Ministry of Labour is firming up its stance to tell the states that they cannot abolish labour laws because India is a signatory to the International Labour Organization (ILO),\" Kumar said

Coronavirus impact: In a statement, the labour union said that thousands of BMS activists started demonstrations on the roads as well as outside government offices, following which they sent memoranda to the President of India

Protesting against the move, the unions have decided to hit the streets on May 20 and put forward their demands with local administrative authorities

Protest will be against freezing of labour laws and increasing working hours in various states, on migrant workers issues, payment of wages and job losses; BMS will also call for creation of more jobs in unorganised sector and contractual jobs in organised sector

Details of the package will be revealed in phases by FM Nirmala Sitharaman, but the PM's speech gives a clear indication of its immediate beneficiaries - farmers, cottage industry, MSMEs, labourers and migrants