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Friday, December 19, 2025
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Topic: Wage

Pandemic can’t be reason to exempt factories from paying overtime, SC to Gujarat govt

The Gujarat government had issued two notifications exempting factories from paying overtime wages to employees and providing them ideal working conditions during the pandemic.

Modi govt’s new labour bills pro-employer or employee? Truth lies in between: Ex-IAS officer

Already facing protests, the new Wage Code and Occupational Safety & Health Code bills do have many progressive provisions.

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Modi govt’s repeal of MGNREGA is all about extracting money from states, not reform

The claim that VB-GRAMG provides an employment guarantee is incorrect. The only guarantee is to 'empower' the Centre to allow partial implementation in notified areas alone.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

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.