The state of welfare

Is the UPA government on social overdrive?

Employment bill passed

Amended version improves upon original, but not enough

Draughty bill

Rural employment bill draws flak for diluting draft

Employment guarantee goes hi-tech

Job lot

An employment survey updates some known things-and throws up some new ones

Towards a global anti-poverty convention

Job chances decline for factory workers

With technology advancing at a tremendous pace, companies are retrenching unskilled employees. The effect is being felt most in Europe

Blue-collar job declining worldwide

Traditional knowledge: Let the people decide

PERU

What's the motive?

Draft national policy for farmers is a good begining

Draft national policy on farmers focusses, not farming

What ails employment guarantee

implementing the rural employment guarantee scheme

Jharkhand proposes MGNREGA worker unions

Work demand under the rural employment programme is decreasing in the state

Faulty policies

Change in immigration rules flayed

A US government plan to simplify immigration procedures for professionals in 10 short-listed vocations has come under fire

Against the wind

Government policies and land prices are preventing companies from setting up wind mills in Nagercoil

Dam(n) the rivers

Interlink rivers and get delinked from true water management

No grey

Handloom is haute

CAG indicts Bihar for irregularities in rural job scheme implementation

Only 35 per cent beneficiaries got jobs; half of civil work undertaken left incomplete

Opposition turns up the heat on Nitish government over MGNREGA funds scam

Non-profit report says nearly Rs 6,000 crore meant to be paid to wage labourers siphoned off

The NAFTA nightmare continues

The increasing fear of losing jobs to cheaper Mexican labour has prompted many Americans to protest the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Clinton proposes talks on jobs

Burdened by rising joblessness, US President Bill Clinton wants world leaders to meet to find a solution to the vexing problem

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