For years, job crisis has remained unacknowledged and un-remedied; the COVID-19 pandemic worsened it, but the government has no information on job loss or policy response to it, except for a few relief measures

The outlook for the global labour market in the second half of 2020 is \"highly uncertain\" and the forecast recovery will not be enough for employment to return to pre-pandemic levels this year, the ILO said last week

DHL indicated that the half of the job cuts are due to a decline in car production and half are the result of anticipated \"efficeincy savings\", the union added

In response, Cognizant said that the lay-offs were part of performance management that happens at the company every year; the company said it is hiring at all levels in India and abroad

The World Health Organisation has released an advisory clarifying that viruses, including coronavirus, don't travel on radio waves or mobile networks

The report said that there was a 14 per cent drop in global working hours during the second quarter of 2020, equivalent to the loss of 400 million full-time jobs

Worldwide, an estimated 14% of working hours were lost in the second quarter, equivalent to 400 million full-time jobs, due to the pandemic, the ILO said

As per SBI report, India created 60.8 lakh new payroll (first job) in FY20, which was 28.9 lakh less than the net jobs generated in FY19

States have proposed radical changes in labour laws post lockdown. But those cannot trigger an economic revival

Latest job loss survey and national accounts statistics point to the need for strengthening PDS supply and cash transfers to reach more people, assisting self-employed/micro-enterprises, additional allocation for MGNREGS and a job scheme for urban areas

Give Informal workers social security, say in laws governing them

\"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

Since January, he said, \"WHO has been working with thousands of researchers all over the world to accelerate and track vaccine development from developing animal models to clinical trial designs and everything in between.\"

The radical relaxation of labour laws by the UP government will neither help in demand generation nor in creation of jobs as argued by the state, say experts

From asking factory owners to pay employees during lockdown to abolition of most labour laws, the big climbdown of Yogi Adityanath's government has rubbed trade unions the wrong way

\"There is already very poor enforcement of labour laws in India, and even those are being suspended and withdrawn. This is very inappropriate and we can't endorse it,\" says BMS General Secretary Virjesh Upadhyay

Once the menace of COVID-19 pandemic is over, a new ecopolitical order will emerge which will be more focussed on human development, infrastructure around health and education, climate preservation and most importantly on people

Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) put forward the demands in a meeting with Union Labour Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar

With millions of tourists canceling plans for vacations, work trips and family visits, Airbnb earlier this year said it was allocating $250 million to help offset losses incurred by hosts