The accident took place near Patha village on Saturday night when nearly 20 migrant labourers were going in the truck to Jhansi and Etah from Hyderabad.

'People are falling ill while walking. Some have died. Even then their walking hasn't stopped,' the Rajya Sabha member further said.

Mixed response to State Govt move on labour reforms

‘They are unwilling to stay put in quarantine centres despite facilities’

The State government is considering relaxing some key labour laws meant to protect the interests of workers in Karnataka, including those which govern

Workers’ unions irked by ‘anti-labour’ moves of States such as UP, MP, Gujarat

HC nullifies labour dept order in Cognizant case

Odisha, Goa ease labour norms, K'taka may follow

Nine trade unions under the umbrella of Joint Committee of Trade Unions (JCTU) have said it would oppose any proposal to increase the working hours an

Unlike the other Bharatiya Janata Party-led governments, Assam has not proposed doing away with most labour laws for a certain number of years. Instead it has proposed introducing fixed-term employment to help both workers and industries, and seeks to take more firms out of the ambit of laws governing factories and contract workers.

NITES, said that this went against the government guidelines of not firing people or cutting salaries during the pandemic.

NITES, said that this went against the government guidelines of not firing people or cutting salaries during the pandemic.

In conjunction with World Day Against Child Labour, Christian humanitarian agency spotlights 'horrible and tragic' plight of children -- as young as five -- forced to work in horrific conditions

Dr. K.P. Yohannan calls for people to 'pray, engage and act' to end the 'staggeringly evil' exploitation of millions of children around the world

Workers in red zones were also finding it difficult to travel to factories in orange and green zones. Milon Nag, managing director of Pune-based KK Nag Ltd said, “Our factories in rural areas are open. But our managers and all live in Pune and they are unable to reach factories.”

Back home, the workers are looking to start afresh. Their best bet seems to be rehabilitation packages.

President Donald Trump's executive order to temporarily halt issuance of green cards aims to "turn off the faucet" of new immigrant labour and is the beginning of a broader strategy to reduce the flow of foreigners into the US.

Industry leaders said April-June quarter would be a washout even for the high and mighty.

'Moratorium will probably have to get extended in a lot of cases.'

'You have to get right kind of worker with right kind of skills'

Will Mapplebeck, a Tyneside political commentator, reports on the outflow from the election.

Pair are found out

James Kelly has hit out at the news Glasgow University teaching staff will lose their jobs because of the coronavirus crisis

Shearers, labourers, chefs, farmers and lifeguards are among the workers who push through the heatwave.

Automation and outsourcing are dirty words for many people in Western countries worried about their future employment prospects. Developing countries are seen to be the major beneficiaries of off-shore labour, with multinationals hoovering up increased profits. But the reality is a lot more complex and even messy. Now, even developing countries are starting to feel the pain.

For more than a decade, Australians have travelled to the South Australian outback ghost town of Farina, in an effort to restore the crumbling buildings.

'What a waste of time and energy': Farmers, the strongest opponents of the Federal Government's backpacker tax, have welcomed a court ruling saying it was discriminatory.