The auto industry recorded a turnover of $15.9 billion during the during the first half of 2020-21 against $26.2 billion in 2019-20, which itself was lower than $29 billion in the same period of 2018-19

As per ILO preliminary estimate, unemployment rate could increase from 4.4 per cent in 2019 to somewhere between 5.2 per cent and 5.7 per cent in 2020

India has assumed the chairmanship of governing body of International Labour Organisation (ILO), with Labour Secretary Apurva Chandra being elected to the post, after a period of 35 years

Global labour income is estimated to have declined by 10.7 per cent or USD 3.5 trillion in the first three quarters of 2020, compared to the same period in 2019

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

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

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

ILO called for \"urgent, targeted and flexible measures\" to support both workers and business, particularly smaller enterprises and those in the informal economy

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\"In India, Nigeria and Brazil, the number of workers in the informal economy affected by the lockdown and other containment measures is substantial,\" ILO said

ILO did not project precisely how many workers would be made jobless by the crisis, though it said it would be \"significantly higher\" than the 25 million it forecast just last month

Almost 90 per cent of people in India work in the informal economy and about 400 million workers in the informal economy are at risk of falling deeper into poverty during the crisis

The commission outlines a vision for a human-centred agenda that is based on investing in people's capabilities, institutions of work and in decent and sustainable work.

India led the average real wage growth in 2008-17 at 5.5 against a regional median of 3.7.

India, a fast-growing middle-income country, is at a critical juncture in its development trajectory.