We congratulate Ms. Sudha Pillai, Secretary of the Planning Commission of India  and , former Secretary of Labour and Employment  for  being  elected as   a  member of Social Protection Floor Advisory Group of ILO .She was elected by ILO on 13^th August 2010 .

Only 1.08 lakh out of an estimated 15 lakh workers throughout the State have registered with the Karnataka Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board.

More than 5000 workers were suddenly retrenched on Tuesday by Larsen & Turbo, the contractor for carrying out Vedanta's construction work(.NDTV)

58 years ,as retirement age, is generally followed by public and private sector industries Kerala H.C on 16/3/2010(LLR)

BJP to launch labour union for unorganized sector (Business Standard)

Hindu reports that about 300 labourers working in an underground coal mine of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited at Talcher in Orissa's Angul district were trapped in the mine on Monday after a sang in the lift. The workers were rescued, in small batches, through the lift which is used for bringing out coal. All the workers were rescued by the evening.

Around 26,000 weavers employed in the powerloom sector in Sircilla, Andhra Pradesh.Wages paid to the power loom weavers less than the stipulated minimum.(Hindu)

 

Next Union Labour Ministry’s Task Force on Domestic Workers will be  held on 7^th September, 2010.

ICMC Regional Meeting at Bangkok 4^th to 7^th sep.

 

CWM India is having General Body Meeting and Election on 7^th to 9^th at Goa

 

National Team of YCWM is conducting visit at Amravati.

 

Construction workers at Commonwealth Games (CWG) sites get paid much lower than the minimum stipulated by law and there is no provision for safety gear for them or even hygienic living conditions, according to a report by the Peoples' Union of Democratic Rights (PUDR) Monday. 'Workers continue to be paid wages of Rs.110-130 - far less than the minimum stipulated by law which is Rs.203. Calculations made by PUDR informed that the contractors are saving approximately Rs.75-85 from each worker per day. Almost all the workers are working 10 hours daily with no overtime or no weekly off,' the follow-up report on the violations of workers' rights stated. (LS)

Haryana allows 15 days'' paternity leave to male employees like male Central government employee.

Fishermen seek action on Marine Enforcement which ban on the entry of trawling boats within 10 km of the shore.

About 15,000 workers were rendered jobless due to closure of 55 textile mills in the past three years, Parliament was informed today. "During the last three years (as on June 30, 2010), there were 14,841 workers on the roll of 55 number of cotton/ man-made fibre textile mills (non-SSI) which closed down," Minister of State in Textiles Ministry Panabaaka Lakshmi said in a written to Rajya Sabha on 25^th August 2010

Trade unions come together for massive bandh on September 7^th due to anti-people’ policies  of ed by the Centre Government .

Labour Ministry a scheme titled ‘Kaushal Vikas Yojana’ has been formulated for setting up of 1500 new Industrial Training institutes (ITIs) and 5000 Skill Development Centers (SDCs) in hilly, desert and minority concentration areas  of the country.

In order to get a comprehensive Law for Landless Labourers labour ministry of India  is working on amending the following Labour Laws:

 (i) The Mines Act, 1952

(ii) The Factories Act, 1948

(iii) The Minimum Wages Act, 1948

(iv)The Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970

(v) The Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment   and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979

(vi)The Employment Exchange (Compulsory Notification of Vacancies) Act, 1959

(vii) The Apprentices Act, 1961

(viii)The Employees’ Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952; and

(ix)The Labour Laws (Exemption from Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Registers by Certain Establishments) Act, 1988

Now landless workers  interest is covered by Acts like the Unorganized Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008, the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 and the Building and Other Constructions Workers’ (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996.(Labour Minstery site)

“Kerala Lockout at major Apollo plant ends

Air India employees unions wait for company''s turnaround plan

Karnataka Bank employees to strike work in September

Andhra Pradesh Teachers to go on strike on Sept 7

Bihar Two lakh government employees go on strike

Cabinet to take a call on Air India wage cut

Gujarat GSRTC employees threaten to go on mass casual leave on August

Bihar TUs join hands to support BSRTC staff stir “ (Labour Start Report)

 

High Court will not interfere with coverage of establishment as upheld by EPF Tribunal 3/5/2010 (LLR)

Five workers of a private paper factory in Punjab were killed Saturday when a blast took place .Seven other workers were injured in the accident on Dhuri Road near Malerkotla town in Sangrur district, about 150 km from Chandigarh. (LS)

The employees of public sector general insurance companies and Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) are set to get a 17.5 per cent wage hike with the Government nod to this effect likely in September.(ET)

Tourism day message 2010 is available on documentation link .Theme of Message is “Tourism and Biodiversity “

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