India imported around $4.4 billion worth of aluminium in 2019/20, government data showed. China was the biggest supplier, shipping aluminium worth just over $1 billion

The EPFO has decided to provide 8.15 per cent interest on EPF right away and the remaining 0.35 per cent rate would be credited into the subscribers' account by the end of this year, after proposed liquidation of ETFs

Notably, 55 per cent of advance claims settled during April-August 2020 were related to the recently introduced COVID-19 advance, while around 31 per cent of advances settled during the period pertained to illness claims

The EPF interest rate can be credited into the accounts of over six crore subscribers of the EPFO for a particular financial year only after the finance ministry's nod

The All-India CPI-IW (consumer price index for industrial workers) for July 2020 increased by 4 points to 336

Developed economies have sound, fiscally-supported systems to respond to workers' distress in normal times, which they scaled up several notches with higher fiscal support to fight the current crisis. India doesn't have such a system nor did it rise up to the crisis; it isn't even tracking job loss

India's new unemployment allowance plan for lockdown-induced job loss would benefit a small fraction of organised workers; the new social security code in the works aims to expand social security to 100 million organised workers but contains no concrete plan for 437 million unorganised workers

Indian Railways aims to generate 800,000 man-days of employment for migrant workers in infrastructure projects over 125 days, until October 31

The period of coverage which was earlier available from March 24 till June 30, 2020 has also been extended by a year to June 2021

Domestic benchmarks opened majorly higher today, although erased early gains on the back of mixed cues by the afternoon session. European markets traded lower after FOMC minutes showed a pessimistic stance taken by its officials in its latest meeting

The first three months in this fiscal saw 8,47,649 new jobs compared to 30,02,975 jobs in the same period previous fiscal.

Gold, Silver prices today: On the Multi-Commodity Exchange, gold September Futures traded 0.40% or Rs 186 higher at Rs 52,337, after hitting an intraday high of Rs 52,409 against the previous close of Rs 52,151 per 10 gm

The government on Thursday relaxed eligibility criteria to offer half of three months salary as unemployment benefit to the industrial workers hit by job loss due to the coronavirus crisis between March 24 and December 31

Salaried jobs declined by 22 per cent or 18.9 million during the coronavirus lockdown to 67.2 million by the end of July 2020 as against 86.1 million in 2019-20

The representatives of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs on Monday briefed the panel about social security and welfare measures for inter-state migrant, unorganised and informal sector workers

Without quality education, no economy can progress, at least not in today's technology and knowledge-driven globalised world order. Economists and policymakers know this well yet pay no attention

At the end of June, the hiring sentiment stands at minus 15 per cent year-on-year as against a record low of below minus 50 per cent year-on-year in April

Banerjee enunciated that the stay-at-home restraints, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, did not envisage the migrant labour crisis since there was no database about them

Chinese lenders disposed 2.3 trillion yuan of bad loans in 2019

Labour ministry's proposal also aims at lowering the minimum work requirement from two years to 78 days besides allowing manifold withdrawals under the scheme, subject to some conditions though