Farmers' organisations have called a state-wide bandh in Karnataka on September 28. To demonstrate, protesters sat on a road in Hubli in a bid to stop a bus.
This is part of the government's efforts to move aggressively on labour reforms -- to bring equity in wages across sectors and take into account the fact that over 90 per cent of the workforce is in the unorganised sector.
In what could be a significant improvement over existing wage rules, the government is likely to extend the applicability of the Minimum Wages Act to all forms of employment and workers in both the organised and the unorganised sectors.
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday sought to expand the political capital of his government by reaching out to vast sections of people, including the poor and the industrialists, in a speech that laid
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