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Monday, November 4, 2024
TopicLabour

Topic: labour

What we know and what we don’t know about universal basic income

The debate on Universal Basic Income is often polarised and rooted in selective data. Trials show it performs in both stable and volatile settings.

Not just Wistron, Karnataka battling tougher, longer labour crisis at Toyota Kirloskar plant

Workers at car maker’s plant in Bidadi allege ‘inhuman working conditions and harassment’, company calls strike ‘illegal’. State govt tries to break impasse.

When India sent scores of prisoners to Iraq as sweepers during World War I

In ‘The Coolie’s Great War’, Radhika Singha writes about the British recruiting Indian prisoners and ‘criminal tribes’ to do menial jobs in Mesopotamia.

Govt to relax penal provisions in draft social security code to improve ease of doing business

Changes have been proposed in revised and final version of proposed Code on Social Security, 2020, which is likely to come up for passage in monsoon session of Parliament.

Vendors, lawyers, dancers, brokers — Maharashtra master database to have all migrant workers

Maharashtra govt is planning to maintain a master database of migrant workers engaged in 300 types of jobs in the state.

On May Day, Minister Meghwal & D Raja remember workers, Pratibha Singh on Covid patents

Today’s political, economic & strategic punditry from Sun Weidong, Aakar Patel and more.

Railways faces problem as 700 trains stuck with non-essential goods loaded before lockdown

With 700 of its trains unavailable for transportation of essential commodities, Railways has taken up the matter with home ministry.

How 45 NGOs and $15 million brought down bonded labour in UP, Bihar & Tamil Nadu

London-based Freedom Fund, along with Indian NGOs, helped cut percentage of families in bonded labour from 56% to 11% in the three states.

Pre-poll Budget session must pass minimum wage for unorganised labour

Voters who cannot be given jobs can be partly assuaged with better wages.

Despite wage increase, number of working women in India fell between 1983 & 2011, says study

Since women are perceived  as secondary earners, their willingness to work is negatively affected by the rise in their husbands’ wages, the study says.

On Camera

Rank turners take away the fairness of Test cricket, make ordinary spinners extraordinary

The reliance on rank turners almost led to a defeat against Australia in 2023 and a 3-0 Test series loss against New Zealand this year.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Indian firms sanctioned by US didn’t violate laws, says MEA. Hyderabad firm that supplied to Army on list

Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.