Nepal's new "super Prime Minister" Balendra Shah navigates a challenging first month. Despite an ambitious reform agenda, his government fa...

New government plans to extend the wait for permanent residency to 15 years for care workers risk a significant staffing shortage in Britai...

The Labour and Employment Ministry is organizing five regional conferences across India. These meetings will focus on implementing new Labo...

Addressing a two-day National Conference of Labour & Employment on Tuesday, labour and employment minister Mansukh Mandaviya also stressed ...

Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will lead a two-day national conference on January 29-30 with state and union territory labour ministers ...

The e-Shram portal, introduced at the 112th International Labour Conference in Geneva, led by Secretary Sumita Dawra, aims to assist India'...

Sources in the labour ministry said deliberations will also be held on the Vision 2047 for India’s estimated workforce of 450 million at th...

A senior government official told ET that the labour ministry is contemplating using funds collected under the Building and Other Construct...

According to the 2001 census, there were 12.6 million child workers between the ages of 5 and 14 in India. In 2011, this number fell to 4.3...

CK Saji Narayanan has been elected as the vice chairman of ILC from the employees' group while Sudarshan Sareen is the vice chairman from t...

The Labour Ministry had proposed to make fundamental changes on payment of minimum wages across the country and had said that it will be ma...

Amid strong opposition by trade unions against certain proposed amendments to labour laws, the 46th ILC is likely to witness a stormy sessi...

Dattatreya said the labour reforms being proposed by the Centre are aimed at helping the workers and not diluting the protection for them.

The government will discuss the proposals at the Indian Labour conference to be kicked off by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday.

State labour ministers will meet in New Delhi on September 27 to discuss ways to ensure industrial harmony and labour law implementation.

The government is mulling consolidating labour laws into a few selected categories to reduce multiplicity and disputes in their application.

While worker groups have sought complete abolition of contract labour, the employers maintain that giving privileges to contract labour cou...