Page 4 - Employment In India

MGNREGS ensured work for a year, now states are running out funds for it

States are running out of money to pay wages to workers even as demand for the rural employment guarantee programme has risen because of the Covid-19 pandemic

Blue-collar jobs app Apna logs 12 mn job openings in festival season

Start-up says it enabled more than 37 million interviews during festival season; demand shows economy is reviving

Industry may move court against Haryana's 'restrictive' job reservation law

Law mandating 75 per cent reservation of jobs in the private sector for locals will hit small businesses hard.

Self-employment increases

People who cannot find acceptable jobs and can become self-employed entrepreneurs indulge themselves but they mostly cannot provide employment to others

Household incomes better, caution prevails

Change in household income is one of the five components of the Index of Consumer Sentiments

Hiring activity in India grows by 43% annually in October, says report

Hiring activity expanded by 43 per cent year-on-year in October driven by strong demand for technology professionals, according to a report.

An IT, ITeS labour conundrum

The top 10 companies account for about 91 per cent of all employment among listed IT and/or ITeS firms and they make 92.4 per cent of all wage payments to them

Only way was to compare job survey with 7-year-old census: S P Mukherjee

In a Q&A, the chairman of an expert group advising the govt, says data in the enterprise-based that which showed a 22% rise in factory jobs in April-June, was misrepresented

Job posting activity in Sept sees stable monthly growth of 1%: Report

Hiring demand has increased one per cent sequentially in September, led by printing and packaging on account of rising online sales, followed by BPO and ITeS, as well as import and export, says report

Hiring activity almost flat, sees 3% growth sequentially in Sept: Report

With the onset of the festive season and easing of lockdown restrictions, the hiring activity has stabilised sequentially in September with a marginal growth of three per cent, according to a report

Employment increases in rural India

In all the major labour market metrics, it is rural India that shows big improvements. Labour conditions improved in urban India also but not as much as they did in rural India

ESIC scheme adds 1.3 million new members in July 2021: Official data

This provides a perspective on formal sector employment in the country

An incomplete and exhausted recovery

In August 2021, seventeen months after that draconian lockdown of April 2020, employment continues to remain lower than it was in 2019-20

Hiring activity witnesses marginal growth sequentially in August: Report

Hiring activity witnessed a marginal growth of 1 per cent in August sequentially due to decline in job postings in sectors including engineering, logistic, agro-based industries among others

Women need a better deal

The literature, say the authors, has focused on supply-side constraints that prevent women from entering the labour markets

Migration from factories to farms, a sign of distress

The government's Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) report shows a sharp increase in employment in agriculture from 42.5% of the total employment in 2018-19 to 45.6% in 2019-20

Consumer sentiments improve in July

The July recovery in consumer sentiments is not only substantial but it is also spread evenly and robustly across regions

Covid impact: More women have exited formal employment in India than men

Of the more than half a million women who exited the formal workforce and did not join back, two-thirds were under 35 years of age. By comparison, only a third of men under 35 exited formal employment

Employment recovery expected in July

But, the recovery was incomplete because the employment rate, which is the working age population that is employed, never repaired with its pre-Covid levels

Tamil Nadu receives Rs 28,508 cr investment commitments; GE to set up CoE

Tamil Nadu on Tuesday received investment commitments to the tune of Rs 28,508 crore from 49 companies across various segments that will create 83,482 jobs in the state.