South Africa proposes $250 as national minimum wage
Johannesburg, Nov 21 : South Africa has proposed a national minimum wage of 3,500 rands ($250) per month as the national minimum wage, officials said. On Sunday, South African Deputy President Cyril...
View Article500 vacancies of High Court judges: CJI; 120 appointed, says government
New Delhi, Nov 26 : Chief Justice of India T.S. Thakur on Saturday expressed concern over non-filling of vacancies in various courts, saying around 500 posts of High Court judges were lying vacant. The...
View ArticleTrump warns US firms outsourcing jobs abroad
Donald Trump Washington, Dec 2 : US President-elect Donald Trump has warned that US companies would face “consequences” for outsourcing jobs abroad, as he touted his early success in persuading an air...
View Article90 Norwegian companies in India looking to increase staff
By Aroonim Bhuyan, New Delhi, Dec 4 : The 90-odd Norwegian companies operating in India by and large find the business climate here favourable with many of them looking to increase staff in the near...
View ArticleIndian mine project in Australia ‘promises’ not to hire overseas workers
Sydney, Dec 6 : Indian conglomerate Adani Group has promised not to employ overseas skilled workers on Australia’s 457-category temporary visas for its mega coal mine project in Queensland state, local...
View ArticleRBI says no notes shortage, outside Delhi hundreds face job losses
By Malini Nair, Around 8.30 every morning, hundreds of workers arrive at the main bus depot in Noida Phase II, about 30 km from New Delhi. They fan out into the lanes of the neighbouring hosiery...
View ArticleTrump says Sprint will bring 5,000 jobs back to US
Washington, Dec 29 : US President-elect Donald Trump has said that Sprint will bring 5,000 jobs back to the US from overseas, while another company OneWeb will add 3,000 more, media reports said. Trump...
View Article20 US states to increase minimum wage in 2017: report
Washington, Dec 31 : Twenty US states and the District of Columbia will raise their minimum wages at the start of 2017, media report said. The move will boost pay for about 4.4 million low-wage workers...
View ArticleJ&K employees to get massive salary hikes from 2018: Government
Jammu, Jan 11 : Jammu and Kashmir will implement the recommendations of the 7th pay commission from April 2018 to give a massive 23.5 per cent hike to lakhs of government employees and pensioners in...
View ArticlePrioritising job creation, Trump targets pharmas
By Arul Louis, New York, Jan 12 : President-elect Donald Trump has announced that creating jobs would be the cornerstone of his presidency and took aim at the pharmaceutical sector vowing to bring the...
View ArticleAmazon announces 100,000 new jobs in US
Washington, Jan 13 : US-based e-commerce and cloud computing company Amazon has plans to create more than 100,000 new jobs in the US over the next 18 months, a media report said. The e-commerce giant,...
View ArticleBelgian post outsources 200 jobs to India
Brussels, Jan 14 : Belgian post company Bpost is transferring 200 jobs in the ICT sector to two companies in India, Infosys and Tata Consultancy, the Belgian media reported. But the Belgian trade...
View ArticleDjibouti president: Job creation, provision of adequate housing are...
Djibouti : Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh confirmed on Monday that the creation of jobs for the unemployed as well as the provision of adequate housing for vulnerable families and low-income...
View ArticleBritain asks public sector to recruit 200,000 apprentices by 2020
London, Jan 21 : Britain’s public sector has been set the task of recruiting 200,000 apprentices by 2020, the government said. Skills Minister Robert Halfon announced that the Department for Education...
View ArticleOnline labour fast replacing traditional desk jobs: Report
New Delhi, Jan 26 : On-demand labour platforms and online work-management solutions are surging globally and leading companies are dissolving traditional hierarchies and replacing them with online...
View ArticleLower fees, cheaper gadgets, jobs: Young India’s budget expectations
By Ruwa Shah, New Delhi, Jan 29 : Curtailment of education fees, cheaper electronic gadgets and more focus on jobs are some of the expectations Young India has from the budget for fiscal 2017-18 that...
View ArticleNew UK-India Tech Partnership to create jobs, generate investment
New Delhi : The new UK-India Tech Partnership agreed to during the bilateral meeting between visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his British counterpart Theresa May will help generate...
View ArticleUnemployment to be main issue in 2019 polls: Chidambaram
New Delhi : Congress leader and former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said on Monday that the biggest issue in the 2019 Lok Sabha election will be unemployment and Narendra Modi government’s...
View ArticleAmazon bringing 3,000 more jobs to Canada
By Barry Ellsworth, Trenton, Canada: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Amazon jointly announced Monday that the online retailing giant will add 3,000 employees to its Vancouver operation. In...
View ArticleCompanies in India to recruit more permanent employees: Report
New Delhi : Companies in India are likely to recruit more permanent employees than contractual workers in the times ahead, a report said here on Tuesday. “The results suggest that recruitment drives...
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