POSH TRAINING FOR BLUE COLLAR WORKERS

The report by Huntr is based on quantitative surveys with qualitative interviews with 1,00,000 blue workers enrolled on the platform from May 2023-April 2024 compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. It further stated that the UAE's...

The second-longest Lok Sabha elections in the history of the nation spanning 44 days have thrown up a slew of handsome and instant earning opportunities for migrant workers back home, from attending election rallies and door-to-door pamphlet distrib...

According to recent data from Prime Database, shared exclusively with ET, 268 companies reported 5,244 work-related injuries to white-collar employees in 2022-23, compared to 392 companies reporting 9,867 injuries to blue-collar workers during the f...

The Indian job market is witnessing an unprecedented dichotomy where a severe shortage of skilled and semi-skilled workers is leading to project delays and stalling of work for corporates even as marquee B-schools and engineering colleges struggle t...

India needs to focus on skill development and holistic education to bridge the gap between potential and realization. Only 5% of the population is formally skilled, leaving graduates unprepared for the job market. The shift towards skill-based educa...

This report analyzes data from the Huntr platform and reveals that workers from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, and Tamil Nadu are the highest contributors to the migration of construction workers from India to the GCC countries. The report also hi...

Vi Thi Anh spent half a decade doing monotonous low-paid work in industrial hubs near Vietnam's capital Hanoi, assembling mobile phones for global electronics companies including Samsung.

According to the report, there has been a 50 per cent increase in the migration of blue-collar workers from India to the GCC in the first seven months of 2023. The top five labour-sending states include UP, Bihar, Kerala, West Bengal, and Tamil Nadu...

Organizations, from large corporations to small businesses and educational institutions, are broadening their efforts to raise awareness of the Prevention of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (POSH) law. They are targeting blue-collar workers ...

Companies are accelerating efforts towards creating a more inclusive workplace, and these are starting to pay off. "ITC has been betting big on employing women as a majority workforce across factories, enthused by their regularity, dexterity and dis...

Earlier this week, L&T’s CFO R Shankar Raman said the company is facing a shortage of carpenters and masons. Hospitals in India have been forced to hike the salaries of nurses due to the high attrition rate. Many are migrating for better pay and wor...

Data from Qjobs, a hiring solution for blue-collar jobs by Billion Careers, a Quess company, showed 39% year-on-year growth in the number of vacancies posted on the platform in February. Rapid technological advancement in various sectors is spurring...

As access to skills and education is getting easier with technology, people at the bottom of the pyramid should also get equal opportunities to reap the benefits. This can make courses cheaper and the workforce better equipped.

The findings come at a time when the cost of living is rising rapidly in many parts of the world amid high global inflation and after two years of pandemic-related disruption to jobs.

Staffing firms are employing apps and online onboarding tools to shortlist and employ blue-collar staff, as companies look to tap a workforce that is both fungible as well as flexible post-pandemic. Dia Rekhi gives you the details

As part of the drive that started on Tuesday, the Indian mission has collaborated with Skyline University College and the Indian Association, Sharjah and will train the blue collar Indian workers in English language and communication skills, basic c...

A key challenge now that the blue-collar staff is coming back to workplaces is to provide them relevant infrastructure and time for learning.

The app offers contextualised safety training across nine job roles including delivery boys, police, health workers, drivers, maids, etc.

Almost empty hands now, a number of migrant workers have themselves evinced interest to return back.