The number of employees covered under ESI Scheme and details of the amount of contribution income, State-wise is as per the Table given below: STATE-WISE COVERAGE & CONTRIBUTION INCOME Sl. ..
An Expert Committee has been constituted in June, 2009 for reviewing the Employees’ Pension Scheme, 1995. The Committee headed by the Special Secretary (Labour and Employment) consist of actuaries, experts from social security and insurance sec ..
In a recognition that adopted infants need the same care and attention from their new parents as bloodline children, the Centre has decided to provide `child adoption leave' of 15 days to male government servants and extend maternity leave of women e ..
Calcutta High Court today rejected the private transport operators plea seeking an extension of the deadline to phase out 15-year-old vehicles in a bid to minimise air pollution.The High Court had issued an order on July 18, 2008, that private commer ..
The Government should introduce amendments to labour laws to protect the rights of workers in the new globalisation regime, the Labour Law Practitioners Association (LLPA) of the Madras High Court has said.In a letter to the Union Minister for Law an ..
The Madras High Court has held that there was no illegality in the appointment of Dr M S Ananth as Director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. In its order yesterday allowing writ appeals challenging a single Judge’s order, a Divisi ..
Treating a petition against the recent strike by resident doctors in Maharashtra as a PIL, the Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court has issued notices to the Medical Council of India (MCI) and state government over the agitation.Besides the state govern ..
The Government had signed Labour Agreements with Jordan and Qatar in 1980s. Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, after its creation in 2004, has made concerted efforts to enter into bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with all the major recei ..
Central Government is the appropriate authority for enforcement of the Child Labour(Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986 in respect of establishments under the control of the Central Government or a railway administration or a major port or a mine ..
As per census 2001, 314.54 million persons moved for various reasons within the country. Out of these, 29.90 million migrated for reasons of employment. Regarding Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Se ..