EFI Daily News24thNovember, 2017
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Cabinet nod to women cell to support skills, jobs andhealth
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave approval for setting up of the Pradhan Mantri Mahila Shakti Kendra (PMMSK), for empowering rural women with opportunities for skill development, employment, digital literacy, health and nutrition. Read
Govt seeks data on contract workers in key ministries to draft minimum wage plan
Facing protests from workers over minimum wage and allied benefits, the labour ministry is reaching out to all the key ministries, to make a fair assessment of minimum wages currently paid. Read
Countrywide Protest by Workers Against Price Rise on 13 December 2017
The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) calls upon the working people throughout the country, its units and affiliated unions of the workers to register countrywide protest against the continuing price rise on 13 December 2017, in every industrial centre, city, town and rural areas by staging demonstrations. Read
Trade unions to launch agitation against labour law changes in Maharashtra
Unions affiliated with various parties, including that of the ruling ones, have come together for the state-wide agitation.(FILE). Read
TN gets India's first trade union for IT sector: What's in it for employees
An organisation from Tamil Nadu has become the first registered IT trade union in the country, paving the way for more unions in an industry which is known to have resisted such associations for long. Read
Private sector employees can get a higher pension
If an employee has become an EPFO subscriber before Sept 2014, he can increase contribution to Employee Pension Scheme. Read
Plea to fix Rs. 9,000 as minimum pension
Urging the State Government to provide a minimum pension of Rs. 9,000, members of Tamil Nadu Government Pensioners Association (TNGPA) staged a demonstration in front of taluk office here on Tuesday. Read
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man
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