The codes also seek to expand the coverage of social security (such as pension) to include the unorganised sector, the self-employed, migra...

A senior government official told ET on the condition of anonymity that the new index with a revised base year and basket is likely to be l...

Potential employers searched from 55 towns — this was also earlier limited to larger cities. Queries came from places as diverse as Jalandh...

The new index will take into account significant change in the consumption basket over the past three decades.

In Budget speech, FM not only tried to woo the middle class, but also tried to address rural stress.

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An official said the time is not ripe to enhance wages and make it binding on all states as this would raise the input cost for manufacture...

A senior government official told ET that the labour ministry is considering three groups for states and union territories based on the per...

Wages under the government’s flagship rural job guarantee scheme are set to rise 11.4% from April 1.

Wages under the government’s flagship rural job guarantee scheme are set to rise by 11.4 per cent from April 1, according to people close t...

MNREGA workers to get more money with the Centre revising their wages from April 1, said Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh.

The commerce and industry ministry has opposed labour ministry's move to give statutory backing to the national minimum wages.

The Sikkim government labour department has proposed to increase the minimum daily wage of workers to Rs 130 from the present Rs 100.

Decline of headline inflation to near-zero levels seems to have offered little relief to the man on the street with food prices climbing st...

Inflated pay may deprive workers of economic activity instead of providing safety net.

The Sikkim government took up the cause of the media with its budget for 2008-09, presented on Wednesday, allocating Rs 50 lakh as Media De...

All is not well on the wage-payment front. Claims were decided in only about 2.5% of the irregular cases (where minimum wages were not paid...