Enhance female labour force participation: Bhupender Yadav to India Inc

The labour and employment minister Bhupender Yadav urged India Inc to enhance female labour force participation in India and ensure women are at a decision making position.

“To promote female labour force participation rate, not only should there be higher participation of women in the workforce but women should be seen at positions of decision-making,” Yadav said in his interaction with human resource heads of several industries across sectors.

Industry body Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) facilitated the interaction of top labour ministry officials with industry representatives from manufacturing, staffing agencies, automobile, construction and hotel industries among others, the labour ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.


According to the statement, the industry representatives suggested the labour ministry to introduce guaranteed employment in urban areas, reorient education curriculum to align with the emerging technologies and enhanced use of apprenticeship for employment generation while urging the government to roll-out the labour codes at the earliest.

The labour ministry also sought the views of India Inc on improving service delivery in Employees Provident Fund Organization and Employees State Insurance Corporation, work from home, better utilization of services of National Career Service Portal and for enhancing women participation in the labour force besides others, it said.

Further, such interaction would take place on a regular basis with all stakeholders and the government will seek cooperation of CEOs and HR heads of the industry in policy making for the welfare of workers and for creation of decent employment, the minister concluded