The Budget focuses on growth to create jobs but lacks holistic measures to solve the problem of massive unemployment

Labour trouble at the plant calls for introspection on the right balance between reforms and Licence Raj

Sandeep Kataria is an alumunus of IIT-Delhi and XLRI-Jamshedpur. He was a gold medallist of the 1993 PGDBM batch at XLRI. Kataria has 24 years of work experience at Unilever, Yum Brands, and Vodafone in India and Europe

Sandeep Kataria is an alumunus of IIT-Delhi and XLRI-Jamshedpur. He was a gold medallist of the 1993 PGDBM batch at XLRI. Kataria has 24 years of work experience at Unilever, Yum Brands, and Vodafone in India and Europe

This move seems to arise from the government's inability to create jobs so it is using its power to enact and make regulations, says K.R. Shyam Sundar, labour economist, and professor at XLRI Jamshedpur

State governments are on a \"policy-law-copy\" mode thus setting in motion a vicious and unhealthy competitive federalism

Business schools are finding it tough to get students placed, but its not doomsday

B-Schools could face an existential crisis as economy slows and education moves online

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

The three labour codes seen together fail to achieve even reasonable balance between enabling of ease of doing business, and protecting & strengthening labour welfare and their rights

Features of National Education Policy: NEP 2020 has set the target to increase the public investment in the education sector to reach 6 per cent of GDP by the Centre and State

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

The board gave its nod to the re-appointment of Directors, whose current tenures end on September 30, 2020, L&T said in a regulatory filing to BSE

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

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

Reddy was speaking at a two-day leadership conclave jointly organized by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Complex Choices and XLRI, Jamshedpur, in Hyderabad.

Companies are opting for customised management training programmes for employees

B-schools are trying to fix the gender gap in their classrooms

The private corporate sector simply does not need to invest more because lack of demand has forced it to cut production and capacity utilisation for several years now. Besides, growth in employment is happening elsewhere (not in manufacturing) where the relation between investment and employment growth is tenuous.