The Union government’s draft labour policy has drawn “inspiration” from Manusmriti, the ancient Hindu text that codified caste hierarchy, and has termed labour as rajdharma, a premise that experts ...

Under the Employees’ Compensation Act, 1923, employers are legally required to compensate workers for injury, disability or ...

A group of ten central trade unions (CTUs) have submitted a joint representation to Union Labour & Employment Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, opposing the draft ‘Shram Shakti Niti – 2025’ (National Labour ...

With the government focusing on job creation and employment for the country’s workforce, the labour and employment ministry is now working on a National Employment Policy with the objective of ...

The Central Trade Unions (CTUs) of the country, except the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-backed Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), rejected the ‘Shram Shakti Niti 2025’, the draft labour policy of the ...

The Union Labour Ministry’s draft labour policy, the Shram Shakti Niti 2025, which was released for public comments on Wednesday (October 8, 2025), is facing opposition from trade unions. The All ...

‘Standard employment’—understood as regular, full-time, and subject to labour law—remains the prevailing form of employment in high-income countries, however, new forms of employment have been rapidly ...

A recent Western Australian Court of Appeal decision has highlighted how workers’ compensation policy wording can affect the ...