India's temporary workforce grew significantly. The staffing industry added 235,000 workers by September 30. This represents a 17.9% year-o...

In my article on October 03, 2023, titled “Formation of Industry Standards Forum by SEBI - a pragmatic era in regulation implementation”, I...

The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) in India has introduced automated solutions for damages and interest calculations to impr...

However, the pace of addition of flexi workforce year-on-year slowed down when compared to 0.22 million flexi workers that were added in FY...

The Indian Staffing Federation (ISF) has requested that the labour ministry speed up the provisions regarding contract labour under the Cod...

The staffing industry added 12.6 lakh informal workers in 2021-22, driven by demand in industries like fast-moving consumer goods, e-commer...

The ISF staffing members' net headcount grew at 21.5 per cent YoY, indicating the consistent demand in employment across sectors notwithsta...

FutureSkills Prime is the National Digital Skilling platform of India led by the ministry of electronics and information technology (Meity)...

The top sectors which have seen over 50% increase in formalisation of workforce are hospitality and financial institutions while sectors li...

Demand for home delivery has shot up anywhere between 50% and 150% in March-April compared to last year.

The staffing federation has written to labour ministry last week asking them to re-look into the issue.

According to ISF, the EPFO contribution criteria should be limited to three months and government should consider reimbursing paid leave fo...

The industry says the benefit will encourage it to offer better social security package to workers while also reducing their cost of doing ...

Staffing - an established form of outsourcing globally - is yet to be recognised and adopted as an effective means of running a business in...

National Career Service (NCS) unveiled by PM Narendra Modi last week aims to turn the employment of workers into less of a gamble on both s...

Demand is seen driven by ecommerce, retail, IT, FMCG, banking, financial services & insurance (BFSI) and healthcare companies.

According to ISF, organised flexi staffing players have made significant contribution towards social security as well as government revenue...