New Delhi: The government on Thursday deferred a proposal on giving domestic workers the right over minimum wages, paid leave and regulated working hours under a national policy. The national policy for domestic workers, which would benefit over 6.4 million domestic workers, was slated to be taken up by the Union Cabinet for consideration.
The proposal, recommended by National Advisory Council (NAC) headed by Sonia Gandhi in April 2009, aimed at bringing domestic workers under the purview of existing labour laws, thus providing them all the rights and protection available to other workers. Gandhi had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying the proposed policy should ensure remuneration without sex discrimination and protection against sexual harassment at work place to the target group. Labour and Employment Ministry had set up a task force to frame the policy spelling out a comprehensive social coverage for the huge domestic workforce such as paid annual leave and sick leave, protection from sexual harassment and social security coverage, including maternity benefits.
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03:15 AM, May 17, 2013
Athens: At least 20 migrant strawberry pickers were shot and wounded in southern Greece in a pay dispute after a foreman opened fire on them with a shotgun, police said. The incident occurred near the village of Manolada about 260 kilometers west of Athens. Police Captain Haralambos Sfetsos said most of the wounded workers were from Bangladesh. He said the shooting occurred when about 200 workers at the strawberry field...
03:16 AM, Apr 19, 2013
In a fresh twist in the battle for minimum wages for workers under MNREGA, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has yet again written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh proposing a solution to the standoff between the UPA government and activists over the right of MNREGA workers to get minimum wages, as notified in the Minimum Wages Act, 1948, in each state. ...
11:14 AM, Mar 10, 2013
MNREGA workers will now get more money with the Centre revising their wages from April 1 under which the maximum daily wage of Rs 214 has been fixed for Haryana while Bihar, Sikkim, Tripura, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh will get the minimum of Rs 135. ...
04:57 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Dejected over his failure to obtain overdue wages, a man killed himself by triggering explosives attached to his body in China's Guangzhou province. ...
01:58 AM, Jan 21, 2013
British designer handbag manufacturer, Modalu, has come under fire for outsourcing work to an Indian firm that pays extremely low wages to some of its workers. The Hampshire-based firm is best known for designer handbags used by British celebrities such as Pippa Middleton, Prince William's sister-in-law. ...
07:45 PM, Jan 20, 2013
Pochampally: Pera Kamalana sits in a small room of her house, spinning the dyed yarn that will bring alive beautiful ikat designs on the nine-yard silk sari Pochampally is famous for. Wearing a polyester sari herself, Kamalana's life is, however, an irony and hardly as exotic as the timeless creations her loom gives birth to. "I can't afford to wear a Pochampally silk sari," Kamalana told IANS, when asked if...
10:04 AM, Nov 19, 2012
Mumbai: The ground staff at the Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) are on a protest. The cleaning and loading crew said that they are protesting against the firing of 150 workers. They are also agitating for the wages that have not been paid to them for two months. Last week, Delhi and Mumbai state governments said that the controversial airport fee at the New Delhi and Mumbai airports from...
09:40 AM, Oct 20, 2012
Washington: Hundreds of Walmart workers rallied across dozen cities in the US, protesting against low wages and alleged unjust labour practices and have threatened to go on a nationwide strike on November 23, the 'Black Friday', which is said to be the busiest day for the company. According to news reports, workers held walkouts and marches in cities across the US including those in Dallas, San Diego, Chicago, Los Angeles,...
09:12 AM, Oct 11, 2012
The unending woes of Kingfisher Airlines have been brought into sharp focus by the suicide of a ground engineer's wife, allegedly because she was depressed ...
11:29 AM, Oct 08, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala government was mulling a new legislation to deal with the wages and other allowances of nurses and other paramedical staff working in private hospitals in the state. This was stated by Minister for Labour Shibu Baby John in the Assembly on Monday while replying to a submission which highlighted the plight and working conditions of nurses in private hospitals. The government would not allow any private hospital to...
02:26 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Chennai: The multi-million Rupee Tamil cinema industry seems to be on the verge of a crisis with wage revision turning out to be a flashpoint between unions of producers and workers. Peeved over the "unilateral decision" of the workers' body, Film Employees Federation of South India (FEFSI), on revising the wage structure, the Tamil Film Producers' Council (TFPC) has ruled out working with them. While a strike paralysing the industry...
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New Delhi: The Centre on Monday filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the Karnataka High Court order on minimum wages in National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The Centre told the Supreme Court that if the Karnataka High Court judgment is not set aside it will impose a burden of Rs 7,500 crore on the Government and cites lack of fund. The Karnataka government has fixed a minimum wage...
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Life in sun-soaked Spain or France was judged to be the best. ...
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06:35 PM, Oct 03, 2008
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10:37 AM, May 01, 2007
Citigroup showed concern about rising interest rates and wages, which could affect the growth in the short term. ...
03:18 AM, Mar 15, 2007
Hundreds of children are forced to work in hazardous conditions in Mumbai, while many of them die an early death. ...
02:30 PM, Nov 22, 2006
Officers of state-owned oil firms have suspended their plan to launch an indefinite strike for three weeks. ...
11:15 PM, Sep 04, 2006
