Trade unions helped bridge the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers in the US in the post-war years, new research shows
3 min read18 May 2018The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announces that petitions for H1-B visas will be accepted from 2 April
2 min read21 Mar 2018Hundreds of Indian professionals held peaceful rallies across the US, demanding an end to the long and massive green card backlog by eliminating arbitrary per-country limit regulations
3 min read20 Mar 2018The termination of Diversity Immigrant Visa Programme will significantly reduce green card backlogs for highly skilled immigrants from India
1 min read26 Jan 2018Skill training programmes run under both NSDC and industrial training institutes (ITIs) will likely be brought under a statutory body
2 min read25 Jan 2018India will need to make policy adjustments to be able to take advantage of a potential change in the composition of the global labour force
4 min read12 Jan 2018NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar says govt should consider setting up a labour utilization fund to foot the bill for skilling workers and providing them social security
1 min read20 Dec 2017The move to introduce points- based system for green card would be advantageous to foreign workers with professional skills, says White House
3 min read3 Aug 2017Indian IT firms Infosys and Wipro are submitting H-1B visa applications for US tech firms like Cisco, Google to place high skilled workers on a contract basis
9 min read6 Jun 2017IT hiring by Indian IT companies will fall 15 percentage points to 58% in April-September due to global slowdown, automation impact and scarcity of skilled workers
3 min read25 Apr 2017The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared