Reforms that boost growth by enhancing economic flexibility often meet strong opposition related to concerns that they may imply adverse consequences for categories of workers. This study investigates how making product or labour market regulation more flexible changes workers’ risks of moving out of employment and jobless people’s chances of becoming employed.

The combined effects of policy reforms to attract and/or retain teachers, and financial constraints in the context of the economic downturn in 2008 may explain part of the recent trends in teachers’ salaries: decreases in statutory salaries and smaller salary gaps between levels of education.

The accident took place when the labourers were travelling from Telangana's Hyderabad city to Agra in Uttar Pradesh.

U.S. employers are demanding skilled workforces, but are not always able to find a local supply, says a new OECD study looking at Job Creation and Local Economic Development.

Leaders of unions such as Unite, Unison and the General have written an open letter to Boris Johnson demanding the government puts policies in place to make workplaces safe.

A worker at the Sydney Airport almost lost an eye after a peregrine falcon gouged at his eyes while he was completing duties inside of a Qantas engineering hangar.

Darwin airport staff are threatening to walk off the job over Christmas leaving passengers with no food on flights.

A union delegate from the Transport Workers Union (TWU) told other Qantas employees that it was unsafe to work on any planes that had come from Beijing or Shanghai.

The national carrier on Friday said they entered an enforceable undertaking with the Fair Work Ombudsman to rectify a misclassification issue.

The airline has told 20,000 staff members to stand down and cut schedules from late March until May after the government recommended Australians do not travel overseas

Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths were the first to flag offers for staff members being made redundant during the coronavirus pandemic.

Virgin Australia will give back annual leave to thousands of workers that were stood down amid the outbreak of coronavirus after the federal parliament passed the $1500 fortnightly wage subsidy.

The Transport Workers Union took the airline to the Federal Court on behalf of workers on sick leave who can no longer access the entitlement after Qantas stood down two thirds of its workforce.

5,500 workers at Dnata, which supplies frozen meals to businesses like Qantas received the news they were no longer eligible for the $1500/fortnight payment on Monday.

At least 25,600 residents and workers at US nursing homes or long-term care facilities for the elderly have died from coronavirus as of Saturday, new statistics show.

Leaders of unions such as Unite, Unison and the General have written an open letter to Boris Johnson demanding the government puts policies in place to make workplaces safe.

It comes a day after France's PSA announced it would be temporarily mothballing Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port and Luton sites. Car manufacturers are reeling from a slump in demand.

While there are guidelines for motorists to not car share unless it's with members of their household, the rules are not as clear for critical workers who give non-driving colleagues lifts.

The staff member at the Fawkner McDonald's north of Melbourne was one of ten new cases of COVID-19 in Victoria on Saturday, which has caused the restaurant to close for at least three days.

Wilfried Zaha has called on NHS staff in London to reach out to housing firm Zo Properties, which he co-owns, who are offering housing to medical staff fighting against the coronavirus pandemic.

An innovative project in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka is helping sex workers empower themselves, by training them as paralegal volunteers. A confident community is fighting exploitation, standing up and being counted, reports Ramesh Menon.

The Bharati Vidyapeeth police on Wednesday performed the last rites of a construction site worker — hailing from Gulbarga in Karnataka — as the Covid-19 lockdown prevented his family members to come to Pune.

Covid-19 lockdown: Migrant workers, family walk back from Ahmedabad to their native place in UP's Lalitpur

Even after special trains are being run to carry migrant labourers to their home states, desperation among them has not decreased. Several are walking long distances to reach Jalandhar railway station. E

The Indian realty sector and its current condition is going to have a profound impact on the country's economy. This is because of a large number of individuals and businesses depend on the sector as it alone contributes 7-8% to the

Inter-State travel of migrant workers, pilgrims, tourist, students and other persons stranded in different states due to lockdown were recently permitted to travel through notified entry and exit points of Karnataka by the government.

Chairing a meeting to review the movement of migrants, Gehlot said the government has made arrangements for their travel through buses and trains. Therefore, no worker should go on foot, he said.

Railways Superintendent of Police Soumitra Yadav said in the first incident a 29-year-old migrant worker from Sitapur, identified as Kanhaiya Lal, died in a Shramik Special returning from Bhavnagar in Gujarat to Basti in Uttar Pradesh.

Coronavirus Pandemic LIVE Updates: India's Covid-19 tally crossed the 62,000-mark today as the country recorded 62,939 cases with the death toll rising to 2,109.

New Delhi, May 10: Three migrant workers who were on their way to Uttar Pradesh from Maharashtra, mostly walking, died in Barwani district of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday, officials said. The trio were among thousands of migrant workers who

As India continues its fight against the Novel Coronavirus pandemic, actress Sonakshi Sinha has extended her support to celebrity shout-out platform Tring to raise money for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits for the frontline healthcare workers in India. The Dabangg actress

More than 500 workers employed in industries in the Hazira belt, on the outskirts of Surat, gathered to demand that the authorities make arrangements for them to return to their home states.

They have only minimum equipment for self protection

The labourers said there was no point in staying back in Gujarat without any income.

India has been put in lockdown to halt the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. People have been told to stay indoors, but for many daily-wage earners this is not an option.

Maharashtra Police found over 300 migrant workers holed up inside two container trucks meant for carrying essential commodities from Telangana to Rajasthan.

At the Ghazipur border, they huddled close together, only some with masks -- aware of the coronavirus threat that had led to an unprecedented 21-day lockdown of the country and taken away their jobs, but helpless to do anything about combating the infection.