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Maitreyee Handique 12:26 AM | November 18,2009
Separate units are being formed for NREGS workers by unions, which depend on membership fees
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Maitreyee Handique 12:48 AM | November 05,2009
There are 44 Central Acts governing labour. Under the law, SMEs have to implement at least 15 of them, including those covering social security, minimum wages and payment of gratuity and bonus
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Maitreyee Handique 11:52 PM | October 29,2009
Recognizing the ILO convention will help workers freely report accidents and demand information on hazards in the workplace from employers
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Samar Srivastava and Maitreyee Handique 09:42 PM | October 19,2009
Sona Koyo Steering Systems Ltd, Hero Honda Motors Ltd, and Lumax Industries Ltd are among those likely to be affected
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Maitreyee Handique 12:37 AM | October 09,2009
The fifth and concluding part of this series examines how the government is struggling with the task of drafting comprehensive legislation that will cover industrial safety and worker protection
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Maitreyee Handique 12:56 AM | October 08,2009
The safety net for Indian workers debilitated by job-related injuries is meant to be provided by the Employees’ State Insurance Corp. But compensation is usually inadequate and late in coming. In several instances, recipients are dead by the time they get their due, Mint reports in the fourth part of a series on industrial safety
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Maitreyee Handique 12:46 AM | October 07,2009
A 1991 survey carried out by the Indian Council of Medical Research estimated that more than three million people, mostly coal, manganese and zinc miners, were found to be having the disease
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Maitreyee Handique 12:40 AM | October 06,2009
At India’s factories, accidents are just waiting to happen. Hazardous chemicals are not stored away safely; workers who use them are not given adequate training about their handling, let alone proper safety gear. In the second part of a series on industrial safety, Mint examines the absence of norms that turn factory floors into death traps
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Maitreyee Handique 12:53 AM | October 05,2009
In the first of a series that examines industrial safety, Mint looks at how the reluctance of firms to report accidents has led to a complete lack of information and in turn to an inability to address the issue in any meaningful fashion
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Maitreyee Handique 09:25 PM | August 30,2009
New wage structures were to be in place in 2007; there is still no agreement on basic pay, duration of settlement
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Maitreyee Handique 12:34 AM | August 28,2009
The report cites urban youth, women, migrants and workers in the informal sector among the worst hit
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Maitreyee Handique 12:20 AM | August 28,2009
The 24-member joint bipartite wage negotiation committee met for the 20th time time to revise wages, but after more than two years of negotiations, no settlement appears to be in sight
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Maitreyee Handique 01:01 AM | August 24,2009
State governments’ insistence on carrying out all facelift jobs at ITIs through department utilities is also posing delays
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Maitreyee Handique 12:30 AM | August 24,2009
The small and medium enterprises ministry favours setting up an agency to monitor single-brand retail
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Maitreyee Handique 11:18 PM | August 16,2009
The recommendation follows the trade unions’ claim that wages have barely kept up with rising prices
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