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Kerala firm accused of forcing employees to crawl on floor, lick coins

A private marketing firm in Kerala alleged subjects its employees to degrading punishments if they fail to achieve targets
Published on Apr 05, 2025 10:00 PM IST

Harsh Goenka reacts to Ashneer Grover's ‘toxic work’ culture comment amid EY row

Ashneer Grover described the Ernst & Young employees as ‘lifeless’ and extremely quiet
Published on Sep 20, 2024 06:38 AM IST

Will AI lead to job losses in India? What minister Mansukh Mandaviya said

Union Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Mansukh Mandaviya speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi.
Updated on Jul 30, 2024 10:22 AM IST

J’khand labour minister’s son applies for peon’s post, selected

Labour minister Satyanand Bhokta with CM Hemant Soren. (HT)
Updated on Dec 02, 2023 09:03 PM IST

TN withholds Bill for 12-hr shift after protest by unions

Chennai, Apr 10 (ANI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin speaks during the Budget Session of the State Assembly, in Chennai on Monday. (ANI Photo) (ANI)
Updated on Apr 25, 2023 12:44 AM IST

ESIC to invest surplus funds in stock market through ETFs

ESIC
Published on Dec 04, 2022 08:57 PM IST

E-Shram portal: 20-cr registrations, UP & Bengal top list; Check how to register

As many as 10,06,70,463 workers from the agriculture sector registered on the E-Shram portal since its launch last year in August. (Photo by NOAH SEELAM / AFP)
Updated on Jan 07, 2022 01:05 PM IST

E-Shram portal aims to document India's unorganised sector, details here

The E-Shram portal will maintain a database of workers in the country’s unorganised sector.
Updated on Aug 26, 2021 03:22 PM IST

Interest rate on provident fund cut to 8.5% for this year, says labour minister

The finance ministry has been nudging the labour ministry for aligning the EPF interest rate with other small saving schemes run by the government like the public provident fund and post office saving schemes. (Photo
Updated on Mar 05, 2020 02:39 PM IST

Centre planning to introduce ‘One Nation, One Pay Day’ system: Labour Minister

The central government is in the process of implementing Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (OSH) Code, and Code on Wages.
Updated on Nov 16, 2019 03:11 PM IST

CATS employees call off ambulance strike after 75 days

The employees went on a strike after a new contractor was hired by the government.
Updated on Sep 14, 2019 04:41 AM IST

Additional duty of executing new pension scheme irks EPFO staff

Officers of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) are upset at the government’s diktat that asked the statutory body to organise and implement the nationwide launch of the recently announced pension scheme for unorganised-sector workers — a scheme in which EPFO has no official role.
Published on Mar 05, 2019 06:43 AM IST

Govt notifies 8.55% interest on provident fund accounts for 2017-18, lowest in 5 years

The EPFO had provided 8.65% interest for 2016-17. The members got 8.8% in 2015-16 and 8.75% each in 2014-15 and 2013-14.
Updated on May 25, 2018 09:40 PM IST

No disagreement with finance ministry on 8.55% interest on EPF: Labour minister

Union labour minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar.
Updated on Apr 15, 2018 12:16 PM IST