Page 40 - Labour Codes News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

National Employment Policy to take shape by December, says Labour Bureau DG DS Negi The document is expected to aid employment generation in the country to a great extent, at a time when the government is grappling with the issue of job loss especially due to the pandemic Representational Image. Reuters New Delhi: The Ministry of Labour and Employment is likely to give a shape to the National Employment Policy (NEP) by December this year following the implementation of four labour codes and completion of four major surveys, inclu...

Updated Jan 06, 2021 | 06:25 IST Traditionally tax was the annual change quotient for most employees that impacted their ‘take-home-pay’, but going forward labour codes may also have an impact. Representational image  The government has been pushing the ‘Make-in-India’ initiative by bringing in various legislative, administrative and e-governance related changes to facilitate the ease of doing business in India. The Labour Code is one such step in that direction. As part of labour law reforms, the Government of India has undertaken rationalisation of 29 labo...

Labour ministry formalises work from home for services sector SECTIONS Share Synopsis Besides, to safeguard the IT industry, the ministry has prescribed involvement in unauthorized access of any IT system, computer network of the employer, customer or client as a misconduct under the separate model standing orders for services sector prepared by the government for the first time. Agencies The labour ministry has formalised work from home for the services sector while leaving it for the employers in the IT sector to mutually decide the work hours for its employees. The labour ministry has fo...

For work from home to continue beyond COVID, the regulatory framework must change Regulations must address questions such as whether an employee’s home can be considered as an extended worksite, the questions of employee privacy and employer liability Jignesh Thakkar Checklist: The correct sitting position. (Image: News18 Creative) While most of the surveys conducted in the last few months confirmed that more than 70 percent of employees and companies would prefer to work from home even post-pandemic situation, the question is whether India has t...

Govt finalising technicalities of four mega surveys to collate job data of unorganised sector SECTIONS Share Synopsis The government has set up an expert group under the chairmanship of Professor SP Mukherjee to provide technical guidance to the Labour Bureau with respect to these surveys. The expert group consists of eminent economists, statisticians and government functionaries. Agencies “The survey will be done by the Labour Bureau and results will be available by October 2021,” the minister said while speaking at the centenary celebrations of the Labour Bureau. The labour ministry i...