Page 17 - Employment

US job growth jumps; govt shutdown pushes unemployment rate to 4%

January marked 100 straight months of job gains

Better hike, more jobs may be on offer in first half of 2019: Survey

84% of recruiters are willing to add jobs and fill existing vacancies by June

New jobs jump 48% to touch 15-month high of 7.32 lakh in Nov: EPFO data

Around 73.50 lakh new subscribers were added to social security schemes of the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) from September 2017 to November 2018, the data showed

Over 500 students prep for jobs abroad across sectors under govt initiative

Centre steps up bid to skill workers, sees opportunity in countries with ageing population

Jobs, cash and other Indian headaches

Is it time to take a relook at our economic theories?

ESIC data suggest 16 mn new jobs created in 13 months till Sept: Report

Job creation more than doubled to 973,000 in September, the highest monthly addition since September 2017, compared to 411,000 in the same month last year, as per the EPFO payroll data

India's employability rises to 47%; engineers most employable: Study

India Skills Report says 57 per cent of the final-year engineering graduates were employable, an increase of about five percentage points since last year.

Job offers increased in September 2018

The Indian Railways was seeking to hire 120,000 recruits

India Inc wages and salaries grew 12.6% in Q1; hints of a hiring uptick

Non-bank retail lenders such as Bajaj Finance, Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC), Indiabulls Housing and Shriram Transport Finance topped the chart with 27.6 per cent YoY growth

86% employees feel they waste time in administrative work unrelated to core

Further, the survey reveals that worldwide 53% of employees feel pressure to work longer hours or pick up extra shifts to grow their career

BJP-led govt moved 50 million people out of poverty in 4 year: Modi

Modi said, "we are committed to bringing those left behind in the development race into the mainstream."

Employment stagnates in 2017-18

The labour force fell from 439.7 million in 2016-17 to 426.1 million in 2017-18

Maternity bill may lead to lesser women in India's workforce, says report

Only 27% Indian women are in the labour force-the lowest among BRICS countries

Job creation: Odisha okays Rs 15 bn investments across 3 industrial parks

IOCL's is the biggest commitment; Its polyester project will provide employment to over 100,000 persons in the long run

Employment conundrum: Has India created more jobs or not? Yes, and no!

Data from household surveys suggest that men between the ages of 25 and 55 have no choice but to work; unemployment is a luxury they cannot afford

Are wages growing at faster rate than job creation? ESIC data unclear

Data potentially suggest that wages of existing employees grew faster than the rate of addition of new jobs or formalisation of informal ones

Manufacturing jobs grow 2.1%, total employment falls 0.1%, says RBI study

There were 198 million people employed in the 'agriculture and others' sector, and by 2007-08 employment grew to 244.3 million

Can India reap the youth dividend?

India can realise the potential of its youthful workers only if those joining the labour force can be absorbed in non-agricultural jobs, since agriculture is burdened with surplus labour

Frame policies to enable industry grow bigger: Panagariya

Shifting workers form agriculture is required since underemployment is the biggest challenge

Task force on employment to submit report next week

Govt says the country's unemployment rate is decreasing and employment generation has gone up