Page 4 - Labour Reforms

Govt wants India Inc to overhaul salaries, proposes higher basic income

While some trade union leaders have welcomed the move, industry has opposed it, fearing an increase in its wage bill

India should focus on increasing formal women labour participation: IMF

We expect and hope that the reform momentum continues. Looking ahead there are important policy priorities, said IMF

Labour reforms: Why a single code may not be enough

For one, employers should be as free to hire workers when they need them for a project as to lay them off when they don't need them or when the project gets over

Govt may water down labour reforms

Small Factories Act, Industrial Relations Code likely to be redrafted under pressure from BMS

India's perpetual job crisis might find its fix in labour reforms

India's notoriously rigid labour laws are the leading cause behind these anomalies

NITI Aayog bats for continued labour reforms

The think-tank wants fixed-term employment in all sectors

Labour reforms may get going, finally

Favourable outcome in polls will give much-needed impetus to the willingness to undertake reforms

Making hiring easy

Safeguards needed for labour reforms in garments, retail sectors

Labour reforms: Modi government's tough balancing act

The government has done a tactical retreat from ushering labour reforms. Instead it is targeting sector specific reforms

Modi govt's tactical retreat on labour reforms

Jaitley has had to roll back several measures under pressure from unions, such as tax on withdrawal from EPF and 0.1% cut in PPF interest rates

Labour reforms not essential for industrial growth: FM

Jaitley has asked the labour minister to to look into the issue of contract workers to make their service condition on a par with regular workmen, the BMS said

Fuelling unrest

Strikes upset France's reform calculus