Social security net to be spread wider for unorganised workersThe labour and employment ministry will introduce multiple measures in 2024 to enhance social security for over 380 million unorganised wor...
Pension in works for 8.5 million construction workersThe government considers utilizing the ₹76,000 crore corpus from construction workers' cess to ensure a minimum pension for workers over 60...
States suggest employment data creation, adoption of focused approach for creating quality jobsSeveral states advocate for better employment data and a targeted strategy for quality job creation at the fifth regional labour meeting. D...
Construction workers may get pan-India card, pensionUnder the Building and Other Construction Workers Act, 1996, state governments through their state welfare boards are mandated to frame and...
Labour minister Bhupender Yadav launches new features on eShram portal to enhance coverage for unorganised workersUnion Minister for Labour & Employment Bhupender Yadav launched new features in eShram Portal today (Monday), it stated. The new features a...
Government widens scope of e-Shram portal to include family details of unorganised workersAccording to the labour ministry, under the revamped portal the registered workers will now have access to employment opportunities, skilli...
Work on UP residential school in full swingThe Uttar Pradesh government is expediting work on the establishment of special residential schools for children of construction workers an...
Govt may use BOCW funds to push pension schemeA senior government official told ET that the labour ministry is contemplating using funds collected under the Building and Other Construct...
Labour ministry expands coverage of Atmanirbhar Bharat Rojgar Yojana“The scheme is intended to benefit a total of 71.80 lakh beneficiaries,” labour minister Bhupender Yadav said in response to a question in ...
HC asks Delhi govt to provide medical assistance to construction workers infected with COVID-19“The counsel has suggested and we find merit in it that if any construction worker is found COVID-19 positive, he should be provided medica...
Punjab government hikes grant for marriage of construction workers' daughters to Rs 51,000Further, to ease the process of availing the benefit of the scheme, the chief minister has approved modification in the existing conditions...
UP government plans life, medical, accidental death insurance for migrant workersThe CM is helming the Uttar Pradesh Labour (Employment Exchange and Job) Commission, which was formed in June with an objective to find gai...
12 lakh EPFO members withdraw Rs 3,360 cr retirement savings during lockdown: FMEarlier, on March 28, the EPFO allowed formal sector workers to withdraw a non-refundable advance from their retirement savings to deal wit...
Realtors say govt’s directive to use welfare fund to help labourers’ to mitigate epidemic lossEarlier today, Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a number of measures to tackle the economic distress caused due to the Coronav...
COVID-19 Impact: Maharashtra govt plans to grant funds for labourersBuilders in Maharashtra have already stopped construction work since Sunday in the backdrop of a state wide lockdown directive by the gover...
Committee for Construction Workers opposes govt move to subsume labour laws into 4 codesThe repealing of the BOCW Act will lead to the closure of all the 36 state BOCW Boards, cancellation of about four crore registrations of c...
Bring model scheme for construction workers in 6 months: Supreme CourtThe top court said that more than Rs 37,400 crore have been collected for the benefit of construction workers, but ostensibly only about Rs...