India's PC-PNDT Act, enacted to curb female foeticide, has had a modest impact on sex ratios over 30 years. While the law's intent is valid...

Bank unions are urging the government to prioritize regular employment over contractual hiring following the implementation of four new Lab...

Chief minister BS Yediyurappa is expected to sign off on a set of amendments to a few labour laws and regulations in a day. They will later...

Besides, they demanded reduction of cost of equity capital, simplification and rationalisation of duties and labour laws, adoption of inter...

The Ministry of Labour and Employment has been taking steps for simplification, amalgamation and rationalisation of 44 central labour laws.

Asserting that workers are backbone of the economy, Gangwar said it is for the first time that minimum wages have been enhanced for all sec...

Government has initiated steps towards amalgation, simplification and rationalisation of Labour Laws into Labour Codes.

There is no direction from the PMO to hasten labour reforms and the issue will go through due process, taking into consideration trade unio...

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

Labour Ministry proposes to come out with codes in areas of wages, industrial relations and working conditions to strengthen safety and soc...

Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya today said there can be no politics on the issue of development and the Centre and the States shou...

Labour ministry has reiterated that it is sensitive to the needs of both employer and employee and has pursued a balanced approach to labou...

"We welcome the Labour Ministry's initiative of launching the 'Shram Suvidha Portal' to facilitate a single window for compliance of labour...

Narendra Singh Tomar said the ministry is "addressing the issues of easing compliance burden to promote an enabling business environment".

Twice in the space of a month Rajasthan has moved to reform its labour laws by offering companies more flexibility, reducing scope for bure...

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

Even as the Centre continues to dither on relaxing labour laws, it has asked the state governments to rationalise the laws governing employ...