India's unincorporated non-agricultural sector shows remarkable growth. Over 9 crore establishments now operate, employing more than 15 cro...

India is considering a policy push to accelerate overseas deployment of skilled workers as part of a broader strategy to support the rupee ...

A signboard in Perumbavoor, Kerala, warns against drug peddling and prostitution, highlighting tensions between local residents and migrant...

The Labour Bureau in India has completed field work for surveys on migrant workers and domestic workers. The surveys are expected to lead t...

According to the latest data on the e-Shram portal, around 8.8 per cent of the registered 8.56 crore informal sector workers fall in the ca...

Undeterred by the raging COVID-19 wave in the country, the Labour Bureau has set a deadline of July this year to release the first report o...

These surveys will provide an extensive data of all the professionals, migrant labourers as well as those who are working in unorganised se...

The surveys to be undertaken by Bureau will be integrated with the technology provided by the BECIL, which will substantially reduce the ti...

Director General Labour Bureau D P S Negi said, "There are very encouraging and positive results of two pre-testings of these five surveys....

These five surveys being undertaken by Labour Bureau are All India Survey on Migrant workers, All India Survey on Domestic Workers, All Ind...

The Inter-state Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979 has now been subsumed in the Occupational Sa...

The Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s first post-Covid budget had several measures to bring the unorganised working class into the main...

The government has set up an expert group under the chairmanship of Professor SP Mukherjee to provide technical guidance to the Labour Bure...

There will be household surveys for migrants. For domestic workers, we plan to include both households employing domestic workers and those...

The move is aimed at creating a central data repository of migrant workers. The proposed household survey will focus on job and income loss...

As per the National Sample Survey Office report on migration in India, almost 55% households in rural areas and 67% in urban areas migrated...

While Delhi and Mumbai were the most popular places for such migrants earlier, there is a big shift towards Bengaluru among new blue-collar...