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New Delhi, The government on Thursday said that draft Shram Shakti Niti-2025 (National Labour and Employment Policy of India) would be finalised only after incorporating suitable improvements suggested over several rounds of consultation, with focus on workers’ welfare. Labour Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya chaired a tripartite consultation on the draft Shram Shakti Niti- 2025 with […]
Union Minister for Labour & Employment Dr Mansukh Mandaviya | Photo Credit: ANI The Centre on Tuesday urged states and Union Territories to share innovative ideas for operationalising new labour and employment initiatives, including the Pradhan Mantri Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana (PMVBRY), while underlining that effective implementation is vital to achieving the vision of a […]
The two-day ‘National Conference of Labour & Employment and Industry Ministers and Secretaries of States/UTs’ will begin on Tuesday, with deliberations centred on accelerating progress in critical areas of labour, employment and workforce welfare, the Ministry of Labour and Employment said on Monday. The conference will be chaired by Union Minister for Labour & Employment […]
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, with New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, in Auckland on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: ANI New Zealand is ready to share with India its agri technology to increase farm productivity and discuss labour mobility within “its own protocols” as part of the free trade agreement (FTA) being negotiated, New […]
The Central government has released the draft labour policy, with a focus on increasing the share of women in the workforce and universal and portable social security. The target is to increase women’s participation to 35 percent by 2030, while also expanding entrepreneurship and career guidance initiatives for youth. The plan is to create a […]
White House justified its $100k for H-1B visa move citing concerns over cheap “foreign labour” replacing American workers in the United States. It noted the rise in unemployment rates among computer science graduates, doubling of foreign STEM workers in the States.“Unemployment among recent computer science graduates has reached 6.1 per cent and 7.5 per cent […]
Retail inflation for both agricultural and rural labourers saw a modest uptick in August 2025, according to data released by the Labour Ministry on Thursday. The year-on-year inflation rate for agricultural labourers rose to 1.07 per cent, up from 0.77 per cent in July, while the rate for rural labourers increased to 1.26 per cent, […]
Union Minister of Labour and Employment Mansukh Mandaviya and Minister of State for Labour & Employment Shobha Karandlaje with the National Career Service and Mentor Together during the signing of the MoU, in New Delhi | Photo Credit: ANI The Ministry of Labour & Employment has signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with Mentor Together and […]
After the big-bang Goods and Services Tax reform, experts batted for increased thrust on process reforms with focus on ease of doing business and deregulation to put India on a sustainable high growth trajectory. ET spoke to key policy advisers of the government and economists to get a sense of the reforms agenda. Their wish […]
The 56th GST Council meeting has approved a landmark revamp of India’s indirect tax regime, reducing the complex multi-slab system into a simpler two-rate structure of 5% and 18% effective September 22, coinciding with Navaratri. | Photo Credit: The GST revamp that slashes tax rates on goods and services into a simplified two-slab structure addresses […]
