A new four-day working week pilot will be held in the UK later this year and companies have been invited to sign up and take part in the latest six-month trial.
By Kerry Reals on 10 July 2024
Fifty years on from the introduction of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, most workers believe the legislation should be updated to reflect changing work practices and place a greater emphasis on mental health and wellbeing, a new survey commissioned by Dräger Safety UK has found.
By Kerry Reals on 11 July 2024
Work-related fatalities in Great Britain have risen for the second year in a row, new data released by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has shown, revealing a trend reversal which British Safety Council says is a “cause for concern”.
By Kerry Reals on 04 July 2024
When the coronavirus pandemic shut down the Indian economy, the domestic work sector was devastated. The house helps, an invisible but crucial workforce, who provide essential services in our homes were suddenly unable to go to work, finding themselves unemployed, without paid leave and with no idea when – or if – their jobs would return.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 04 August 2021
Eighty-six offshore workers lost their lives after four vessels that state-run oil and gas major Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) put into service, went adrift in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Mumbai during Cyclone Tauktae on May 17.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 01 July 2021
Indian labour reforms that were to be rolled out in April across the country have been postponed – and according to officials the implementation could get pushed to next year. The Centre’s big-ticket labour reforms are unlikely to be implemented anytime soon because of the deadly second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 09 June 2021
The world must cooperate to tackle the huge challenges of climate change, terrorism and the pandemic, warned Prime Minister Narendra Modi after India officially assumed the year-long presidency of the influential G20 group of the world’s largest economies.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 06 December 2022
Indian businesses have been urged to step up their efforts to tackle work-related stress and better support employees’ mental wellbeing after a survey revealed that 80 per cent of the country’s workforce reported experiencing symptoms of poor mental health in the past year.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 12 October 2022
Hundreds of workers continue to be injured in the supply chain factories of India’s automotive industry, according to a new report published by the Safe in India (SII) Foundation, a non-profit organisation that campaigns for improved safety standards in the sector.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 12 September 2022
More stringent enforcement of the laws banning the manual cleaning of underground sewers and septic tanks in India has been promised as part of a new government drive aimed at stamping out the practice which claims numerous lives each year.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 05 August 2022
Social security benefits, like accident and injury insurance and sick pay, should be extended to people working in the gig economy for mobile app ‘platform’ businesses like food delivery and taxi firms, according to the government’s official think tank, NITI Aayog.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 11 July 2022
Pollution of all forms caused over 2.3 million premature deaths in India in 2019, the highest in the world, according to a new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 09 June 2022
Swedish fashion giant H&M and Eastman Exports Global Clothing Private Limited, one of India’s largest garment manufacturers, have jointly signed a legally-binding agreement pledging to prevent gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) against women workers at garment factories under Eastman’s control.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 11 May 2022
