Labour reforms would happen only through consensus and dialogue: Modi
9 years, 1 month ago

Labour reforms would happen only through consensus and dialogue: Modi

Firstpost  

The Prime Minister expressed hope that this would considerably increase the ease of doing business and facilitate job creation, without compromising on the genuine protections and rights available for workers. Coimbatore: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asserted that government is engaged in carrying out labour reforms through consensus and dialogue with stakeholders including workers without compromising on their genuine protections and rights. Elaborating about the government’s plans for upgradation of existing state and central medical colleges to increase MBBS seats he said, “Through this, we hope to increase 10,000 MBBS seats and support the colleges with funds for equipment and infrastructure.” “So far 23 medical colleges have been approved to increase over 1,700 MBBS seats. I am happy to inform that four state government medical colleges in Tamil Nadu at Coimbatore, Kanyakumari, Tirunelveli and Madurai have been approved for upgradation by adding 345 more MBBS seats,” Modi said.

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Centre likely to roll out labour codes by early next financial year
2 months ago

Centre likely to roll out labour codes by early next financial year

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi The Centre is likely to implement the long-pending labour codes by early next financial year even if one state fails to wrap up the process of framing draft rules, as nearly all states and Union territories are done with finalising these norms, a person aware of the development said. The four labour codes passed by Parliament during 2019-20 …

Centre-states meet on Friday to fast-track labour codes
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Centre-states meet on Friday to fast-track labour codes

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Union minister of state for labour, Shobha Karandlaje, will chair a consultative meeting on Friday with representatives of all southern states to quicken the implementation of the labour codes, an official said. Union minister of state for labour, Shobha Karandlaje with Union labour minister Mansukh Mandaviya This will be the first meeting to be chaired by a minister …

Modi’s BJP promises jobs, common civil code in manifesto for India election
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Modi’s BJP promises jobs, common civil code in manifesto for India election

Al Jazeera  

The Hindu nationalist party unveils its promises days before the start of a multiphase general election. Releasing its manifesto ahead of the polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday also promised to introduce a new common civil code for the country, calling it a crucial step for gender equality in the world’s most populous nation. Seeking to …

Labour on hit list for three decades
3 years, 6 months ago

Labour on hit list for three decades

The Hindu  

On June 30, President Ram Nath Kovind promulgated the Essential Defence Services Ordinance, 2021, which empowers the Central government to prohibit strikes in essential defence services. Permanent employment was seen as counterproductive to workers’ productivity and establishments increasingly began moving towards short-term employment contracts even in permanent forms of work and outsourcing of work, including in government. On the government …

Govt Looks to Implement 4 Amended Labour Codes by December, Says Santosh Gangwar
4 years, 6 months ago

Govt Looks to Implement 4 Amended Labour Codes by December, Says Santosh Gangwar

News 18  

New Delhi: The government is aiming to implement all the four labour codes in one go by December this year and complete the final stretch of labour sector reforms, Union minister Santosh Gangwar has said. Parliament in its just concluded session passed three labour code bills: the Industrial Relations Code, the Social Security Code, and the Occupational Safety, Health and …

Cabinet Discusses Labour Reforms, to Push Remaining 3 Codes in Monsoon Session
4 years, 6 months ago

Cabinet Discusses Labour Reforms, to Push Remaining 3 Codes in Monsoon Session

News 18  

The Union Cabinet is believed to have discussed labour reforms in detail on Tuesday so that the remaining three Codes pending in the Lok Sabha could be pushed for Parliament nod during the Monsoon session beginning on Monday. The government wants to push all three remaining labour codes pending in the Lok Sabha for passage," a source said. Earlier this …

Why India’s labour is rejecting a new deal
5 years, 2 months ago

Why India’s labour is rejecting a new deal

Live Mint  

Labour reform was a big promise that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made in the run-up to the parliamentary elections in 2014. While the corporate sector will see wage hikes of nearly 10% this year, the agricultural labour market saw a drop in real wages for the first time in recent years. Social insurance schemes, minimum wage laws, trade unions, …

Narendra Modi’s labour reform push may remove key hurdle for investors
5 years, 4 months ago

Narendra Modi’s labour reform push may remove key hurdle for investors

Live Mint  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is finally attempting to overhaul India’s most controversial labor laws to attract investment and make it easier to do business in a country where changing archaic rules is a challenge for any government. “It’s a positive signal of reforms agenda as well as a step toward making India attractive, in the context of the golden opportunity …

Centre, states need to pursue labour law reforms to spur investments, job creations: SBI report
5 years, 9 months ago

Centre, states need to pursue labour law reforms to spur investments, job creations: SBI report

Firstpost  

New Delhi: The Centre and state governments need to pursue labour law reforms as these are necessary for improving investment and generating employment, said SBI in its research report ‘Ecowrap’ on Thursday. Observing that initiatives taken towards labour law reforms till date are “miniscule”, the report said that in an economy like India, which has a large workforce, it is …

Centre, states need to pursue labour law reforms: SBI report
5 years, 9 months ago

Centre, states need to pursue labour law reforms: SBI report

India TV News  

The Centre and state governments need to pursue labour law reforms as these are necessary for improving investment and generating employment, said SBI in its research report 'Ecowrap' Thursday. Observing that initiatives taken towards labour law reforms till date are "miniscule", the report said that in an economy like India, which has a large workforce, it is important to improve …

‘Bill to simplify labour laws coming’
8 years, 1 month ago

‘Bill to simplify labour laws coming’

The Hindu  

The Central government, which is amalgamating labour laws into four major codes, will introduce a bill in the next Parliament session to introduce two of these codes, Minister of State for Labour and Employment Bandaru Dattatreya said here on Friday. After a meeting with members of textile industry associations at Southern India Mills’ Association, the Minister told medipersons that the …

#Budget2017-Legislative Reforms To Be undertaken To Simplify and Amalgamate Existing Labour Laws: Arun Jaitley
8 years, 1 month ago

#Budget2017-Legislative Reforms To Be undertaken To Simplify and Amalgamate Existing Labour Laws: Arun Jaitley

Live Law  

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said that the Government is keen on fostering a conducive labour environment wherein labour rights are protected and harmonious labour relations lead to higher productivity.He also said that the legislative reforms will be undertaken to simplify, rationalize and amalgamate the existing labour laws into four Codes on wages; industrial relations;. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today …

#Budget2017-Legislative Reforms To Be undertaken To Simplify and Amalgamate Existing Labour Laws: Arun Jaitley
8 years, 1 month ago

#Budget2017-Legislative Reforms To Be undertaken To Simplify and Amalgamate Existing Labour Laws: Arun Jaitley

Live Law  

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said that the Government is keen on fostering a conducive labour environment wherein labour rights are protected and harmonious labour relations lead to higher productivity.He also said that the legislative reforms will be undertaken to simplify, rationalize and amalgamate the existing labour laws into four Codes on wages; industrial relations;. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today …

Labour Laws overhaul soon says Union Minister
9 years, 9 months ago

Labour Laws overhaul soon says Union Minister

Live Law  

The Union Government is all set to consolidate a part of the labour laws in the country by integrating Trade Unions Act, Industrial Disputes Act and Industrial Employment Act into a single legislation.It is being said that the new law will have an easier hire-and-fire rules and will also make it tough for workers to form unions. The Union Government …

Modi govt to amend labour laws
10 years, 7 months ago

Modi govt to amend labour laws

India TV News  

New Delhi: Seeking to provide both the employers and the employees with a win-win situation, the Narendra Modi government cleared proposals to amend three labour laws which it plans to bring in Parliament in the ongoing Budget session. The Union Cabinet has cleared amendments to the Factories Act, the Apprentices Act and the Labour Laws Act to make them more …

Modi's federalism at work: Vasundhara Raje takes the bull of labour reforms by the horns
10 years, 9 months ago

Modi's federalism at work: Vasundhara Raje takes the bull of labour reforms by the horns

Firstpost  

Emboldened by a friendly government at the centre led by Modi, Vasundhara Raje is making a bold attempt to reform labour laws in her state. Last Thursday, the Rajasthan government decided to amend three archaic central laws - the Industrial Disputes Act, the Contract Labour Act and the Factories Act, three holy cows of the left - to make it …

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