'Compensation must cover a lifetime of suffering': The Supreme Court has nearly doubled the motor accident compensation awarded to an Odish...

A Delhi tribunal awarded over Rs 40 lakh compensation to parents. The child died after being hit by a speeding car in 2020. The tribunal ap...

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh criticized the new VB G RAM G Act. He called it "Rozgar Adhikar chori" and a centralised scheme. This new law...

India's Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) is undergoing a significant modernization with the EPF Scheme, 2026. Existing subscribers will see ...

The Odisha High Court has ordered the state government to release pending salary for an employee denied wages for over three years due to a...

Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar faces pressure from trade unions to uphold the state's revised minimum wage structure. Private emplo...

Haryana has revised minimum wages for unskilled, semi-skilled, skilled, and highly skilled workers, effective April 1, 2026. The new rates,...

US minimum wage 2026: Workers in 2026 face differing minimum wage outcomes based on location. Nineteen states will see pay hikes on January...

The Minimum Wages (Assam Amendment) Bill, 2022, seeks to amend the Minimum Wages Act, 1948. It proposes to bring amendment to penalties for...

Supermarket chain Tesco, Britain's largest private-sector employer, underpaid 78,199 staff by a total 5.1 million pounds ($7.0 million), wh...

“The experts will be responsible for codification of labour laws, framing of rules related to labour codes, assisting the committee tasked ...

The code ensures minimum wages along with timely payment of wages to all employees and workers.

Previous labour laws on wages imposed local limits on inspectors, which officials said bred a nexus between them and employers and led to c...

The labour ministry wants to introduce four Codes which would subsume all labour laws in more simplified and rationalised form.

The bill on wage code — one of the four codes — had lapsed after the 16th Lok Sabha dissolved last month.

The codification of the labour laws will remove the multiplicity of definitions and authorities leading to ease of compliance.

A Parliamentary panel on Labour and Employment has recommended framing of parameters to define the criteria of fixing of minimum wages.