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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
TopicLabour

Topic: labour

Labour Ministry reviews field offices for faster dispute resolution

The hybrid meeting took place Monday under the office of Chief Labour Commissioner.

‘Worst Italy’: Meloni rues death of Indian working at Lazio farm, terms employer attitude ‘disgusting’

'Gangmastering a plague’, says PM after Indian farmer Satnam Singh, said to be illegally employed at farm near Rome, died when his employer ‘dumped him on road with his arm severed’.

India and Taiwan ink key agreement on labour cooperation

Taipei announced Friday it had signed MoU with New Delhi to allow Indian workers to be employed in Taiwan. This comes as India-China ties remain strained over the 2020 Galwan clashes.

SubscriberWrites: India’s Social Security Code is a Paradigm Shift in Labor Practices

The new code offers a consistent definition, aiming to provide clarity and standardization.

UK’s labour shortage a ‘ticking time bomb’. Hiring refugees can help

Refugees bring in a diverse range of skills and experiences from their home countries. This diversity fosters a creative work environment within the company.

Your ‘revdi’ is freebie, mine is ‘upliftment’ & how one wrong turn can ruin a track record

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

The world is facing a skilled labour shortage. But there is a way to fix it

Some employers have reduced their hiring plans and are reassessing talent strategies, but numerous job openings that remain unfilled.

Even China, India face labour shortages. Can automation rescue the world?

Adopting automation speeds up the manufacturing process and stretches scarce talent. It can even make the workforce more inclusive.

Why men can — and should — participate in the care economy too

If liberating women’s potential is the output, how might increasing men’s labour contribution to the paid care industry be the input?

Salaried jobs are hardly growing — govt data explains the Agnipath anger of young Indians

Government’s latest Periodic Labour Force Survey, released last week, shows that India’s salaried class has grown 3 percentage points & 1 percentage point in rural & urban areas.

On Camera

Top 10 picks of Serendipity Art Festival 2025 by Rohit Chawla

Through film, textile, scent, sound, and gesture, spectators are invited to descend into an immersive environment where inherited knowledge seeps through material and form.

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.