In a major development, the Centre has told a Parliamentary standing committee that working hours of employees cannot be increased beyond eight hours in a day without compensating the employees for the overtime. This decision has come in view of the efforts made by several states to bring changes in labour laws in the country ...

Amidst the whole trouble around the lockdown induced slowing down of the Indian economy, the rural Indian has stood to gain the most. Reports have confirmed that the unemployment rate has seen a consistent drop since first week of May. According to Citigroup analysis report, the main reason for this is government handouts to migrants ...

The Supreme Court has stepped in to help with the state of migrant workers in India. They have been considered the worst hit by the pandemic. According to the Supreme Court ruling, the Centre has to now ensure it registers all the migrant workers, and give them the facility to board any train or bus ...

The coronavirus pandemic is enormously affecting the world economy. Its effect isn’t constrained to specific geography, religion, culture, or ethnicity, however, envelops pretty much every part of human life. The outbreak of the virus’ has influenced more than 180 nations over the globe, and in India, around 12 million will be pushed to the very ...

Twitter is overwhelmed with praises for the Bollywood star Sonu Sood as he earned a ton of adoration via social media for arranging buses and food for stranded migrant workers during the Covid-19 lockdown. Sood’s Simmba co-star Ajay Devgn, celebrity chef Vikas Khanna, Union minister Smriti Irani, and cricketer Shikhar Dhawan and numerous Bollywood celebs ...

“We labourers have no life. We are just a cog in the wheel, spinning continuously until we run out of life.” This is the statement of a weeping migrant worker from Bihar, Ramkumar Pandit, who was working at a construction site in Delhi before he lost job to the lockdown. Desperately trying to reach his ...

In refusing to entertain a plea asking for government help for those migrants who are striking out on their own to reach their homes, the Supreme Court once again failed to weigh in on the issue. A three-judge bench headed by Justice L Nageswara Rao and comprising Justice S K Kaul and Justice B R ...

There is good news for migrant workers in India. With labour reform laws being relaxed in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, job seekers can now find work, despite the terrible lockdown situation that had brought the Indian economy to a grinding halt. The labour law reform is also a way for the Centre to open ...

16 migrant workers who were on track were grinded to death by Goods train near Aurangabad, Maharashtra. The migrant workers were walking from Jalna to Bhusawal as they were returning from Madhya Pradesh to reach their home town amid lockdown. An empty Goods train ran over the 16 migrants fatally and injured few other migrants, ...

Congress offers to pay rail fares for migrants, BJP clarifies over charges War of words between BJP and Congress over special train fares for migrants. Amid the surging plight of the needy, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday stated that every Pradesh Congress Committee or State units of the party will bear the cost for ...