Fewer Workers News Today

good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the government has announced its plans to reduce legal migration, promising the biggest reduction in the number of people invited to the uk — either on work or student visas, as their dependants, or for humanitarian reasons. the plans include raising the minimum salary for skilled workers, except for health or social care workers, which make up the bulk of visas. and the number of family members that can be brought here will be further...

Labour Department plans to launch updated heat stress warning system, guidelines to prevent heatstroke at work in May.

Two workers killed after suspected exposure to toxic gas hydrogen sulphide while working in a manhole.

Sher Singh is barely 50. He wheezes as he tries to sit up in the tiny, rented room in a suburb of the Indian capital. A little over three years ago, Singh climbed into a 10-foot deep septic tank – a concrete chamber where the untreated filth of toilets collect – to clear a blockage. He followed three others down into the stinking pit. Two of them did not come out alive and Sher Singh has been an invalid since then. “As the others went in, they just sat there inside with thei...

Workers from low-caste communities endure stigma and hazards as they clean sewers and septic tanks.

More and more restaurants and businesses are cutting hours. Not from employees but customers because they can't get people to work or stay open because of high rising costs.