Keeping in view the needs of the services sector, a separate model standing orders for the services sector has been prepared the first time, the statement said

Farmers reject Centre's 3-point draft proposal; call for pan-India protests on Dec 14 Farmer bodies protesting against the contentious farm bills have rejected the proposed amendments Centre suggested on Wednesday. The decision was followed by measures to further intesify the protests against the recently formed agriculture laws. Dissenting farmers, who have been protesting at borders of Delhi for the past 14 days, have said that they will block Delhi-Agra and Delhi-Jaipur highways on Decem...

The Atmanirbhar Bharat Rozgar Yojana scheme, which aims to create more formal jobs, to benefit around 58.5 lakh employees, says minister

CPI-IW index hasn't been revised since 2001, which ideally should be revised every five years; Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar says new index is yet to revise minimum wages and inflation in retail prices

7th Pay Commission: The Dearness Allowance of central government employees is linked with CPI-IW. Any change in base impacts the dearness allowance

The consumer price index for industrial workers (CPI-IW) is used for computing both government staff's dearness allowance (DA), pensioners' dearness relief (DR) as well as industrial workers' salaries

Weeks before the festive season begins, some of the high-frequency indicators such as auto sales, air traffic, toll collection and rail freight loadings have revived hopes of recovery

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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 government's rejoinder on the first day of Parliament's monsoon session set off sharp anger and criticism from the opposition

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

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

Easier and simpler labour laws, and flexibility to manage employees, can work wonders for businesses

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

Getting the basics right holds the key. This would involve first acknowledging that a large population has lost incomes, savings and jobs and second, consumption drives the economic growth which had already been weakened even before the pandemic hit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced the creation of the emergency relief fund where people can contribute and help in the government's fight against coronavirus

Coronavirus impact: The Ministry of Labour stated that it would utilise the cess fund of Rs 52,000 crore to provide relief to the construction workers through direct benefit transfer (DBT)

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The Central Statistics Office had earlier reported that the share of MSME in the country's GDP in 2017/18 was at 29.7 per cent

PM Mudra loans: The survey showed that a total of 11.2 million new jobs were created in 2015-18 due to the Mudra loans, out of which 55 per cent were self-employment. Women comprised 62 per cent of these jobs