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e-portal for database on unorganised workers to come up on Thursday

Single-point reference to help authorities track workers in informal sector

Govt to launch e-SHRAM portal for maintaining unorganised worker database

The government will launch the e-SHRAM portal to maintain a database of workers in the unorganised sector on August 26, Union Minister for Labour and Employment Bhupender Yadav said on Tuesday.

LLP Act amendments to help entities shift from unorganised to organised biz

The recent amendments to the Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) Act will help entities operating in unorganised forms of businesses shift into organised structures, according to a senior official

How the government is failing its migrant workers and their families

Outreach and accessibility of schemes, and estimations of the migrant population remain a significant hurdle for benefits flowing to the migrant population

Covid-19 pandemic: Tales of migrant workers betray a year of woes

Their lives thrown into disarray, they struggle with lack of aid, jobs and vaccine

Covid-19 pandemic: Govt may extend social and rural relief schemes

Aims to provide impetus to rural economy and small businesses

Union Budget 2021 ignored unorganised sector, says traders body

The government is banking on the organised sector which provides only 10 per cent of jobs and has ignored in the Union budget the unorganised sector which provides employment for the rest

Top headlines: BSNL-MTNL merger shelved, India Inc's big boys get bigger

Multinational companies operating in India and big domestic firms are grappling with an emerging challenge: How to deal with employees who refuse to take the Covid vaccine. Read top stories here

Strong rural demand cushions volume weakness for Supreme Industries

Expanding distribution reach, value added products to help revenues, margins

LS clears three crucial codes for workers' welfare subsuming 29 labour laws

The codes envisage setting up of a social security fund for 400 million unorganised workers along with the GIG and platform workers

Committee looking to capture informal sector activities stuck on sample

The issue is whether the annual survey should change the sample every time as is done currently when this survey comes out after a gap of five years

Sudden lockdown was a death sentence for unorganised class: Rahul Gandhi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that the sudden lockdown that was induced in the wake of coronavirus crisis has proved to be a death sentence for the unorganised class

Restaurants to jewellery: Formal economy gains, small players lose in Covid

What has been an irreversible trend for a few years - the gradual formalisation of the economy - has received sudden acceleration with Covid-19

More regular-income labour denied social security before Covid-19 hit India

Though more firms were switching to formal sector and paying workers regular wages, that didn't necessarily mean they were passing on social security benefits to them

Fourth tweak in social security Bill likely to cover more workers

The current social security laws in India exclude about 90 per cent of the workforce - mainly in the unorganised sector.

Frames per Second: The long walk home

The precarious existence of millions of people in the unorganised sector was thrown into sharp relief by the lockdown

The long walk home

The precarious existence of millions of people in the unorganised sector was thrown into sharp relief by the lockdown

Govt plans to introduce a 'One Nation, One Pay Day' system, says Gangwar

Gangwar mentioned that since taking the office in 2014, Modi government has consistently worked on reforming labour laws

Inside labour hubs in India's capital: Fewer jobs, more unemployed workers

Demonetisation, GST, sealing and anti-pollution measures worsened the prospects of getting a job, but experts said such opportunities were already scarce for those without a proper education

Information on India's unorganised sector is not adequate, says Urjit Patel

A central banker need to think fresh in an ever changing world, and the central bank resorts to surveys to understand household behavior