Labour Market News
The temporary staffing model beats gig employment hollow
In comparison with gig work, temp recruitment on a formal basis works in favour of workers, businesses and the government. For a relatively flexible and secure workforce, India should promote temporary enrolment over gig jobs.
4 min read7 Jul 2025Mint Quick Edit | Can India’s ELI scheme generate 35 million jobs?
The Union cabinet has approved an outlay of ₹1 trillion for employment-linked incentives aimed at job generation. Now let’s see if it can alter the recruitment appetite of businesses.
1 min read2 Jul 2025OECD sees India growing 6.3% in FY26, projects global slowdown
Private consumption is set to strengthen, supported by rising real incomes, moderate inflation, tax cuts and an improving labour market, the OECD said in a report.
3 min read3 Jun 2025India's unemployment rate at 5.1% in April; labour force participation at 55.6%
The unemployment rate was 5.2% among males and 5% among females in April, data from the statistics ministry showed.
2 min read15 May 2025Prachi Mishra: Don’t leave labour behind if globalization is to succeed
The eventual merits of global economic integration are well established, but since it has short-term winners and losers, its governance must be reset for public resistance to be overcome. Its outcomes need to be equitable.
4 min read31 Mar 2025Mint Quick Edit | Insta Maids: Keep this gig idea under watch
Urban Company’s service that supplies domestic workers within 15 minutes may prove beneficial, no doubt. But a dominant platform could get exploitative. India should let house work get ‘gigified’ only under close regulatory scrutiny.
1 min read18 Mar 2025Infotech dividend: Going digital could boost India’s labour productivity
India is faring rather well on its adoption of digital technology in global comparison. This could spell productivity gains and also better-balanced development—if we fix regional skews.
3 min read5 Mar 2025Mint Quick Edit | Daily time use: We must bridge the gender gap
The latest Time Use Survey, for 2024, reminds us that women in India bear an unfair burden of caregiving and domestic work. For the economy’s emergence, patriarchal notions of gender roles need to fade away.
1 min read28 Feb 2025Economic advice for Donald Trump and Jerome Powell: First, do no harm
America’s economy has done well in recent times and its top policymakers must now ensure that its post-pandemic business dynamism does not fizzle out. They must watch the US labour market and startup statistics closely.
4 min read27 Nov 2024They’re desperate for work—and being brutally open about it
Job seekers are putting pink banners and the word #Desperate on their LinkedIn profiles.
4 min read11 Oct 2024