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COVID-19, Cancelled Sessions, Absent Debates Mark the Functioning of Parliament in 2020 Some key Bills were passed even as a pandemic raged. Most of them, including the contentious farm and labour Bills, were passed in the absence of opposition. Opposition MPs march from Gandhi statue to Ambedkar statue in protest against the recent farm and labour bills, during the Monsoon Session, at Parliament House in New Delhi, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. Photo: PTI Politics30/Dec/2020 Parliament in the year 2020 will be remembered for two distinct features – the way the COVID-19 pandemic led to the...

A business association has asked the government to explain rules being changed for wages, industrial relations, social security, safety and working conditions under four new labour codes. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), in a meeting with labour minister Santosh Gangwar, wanted to know whether wages will include contractual bonus and productivity-linked bonus. In the draft rules, wages exclude bonus. "Given that only bonus payable under law is excluded from the definition of wages, it is unclear how contractual bonus, performance linked bonus, joining bonus, employee referral...

Increasing danger to press freedom; NAJ, DUJ call for unity on common issues KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 12/24/2020 12:56:07 PM NEW DELHI, Dec 23: The National Alliance of Journalists (NAJ) and the Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ), have called for the widest possible unity on common issues, taking in view increasing dangers to journalists, their very livelihood and increasing dangers to press freedom today. They have stressed the necessity of a ‘save journalism’ movement. Twin dangers to the profession are emerging, they said, both from select press barons and the government- that seek to re...