-Newsclick.in In high and upper-middle-income countries, around 20% of all employed are overeducated; the corresponding share for lower-middle-income countries is around 12.5%, while in low-income countries it is less than 10%. Only half of the workers worldwide hold jobs corresponding to their level of education, according to a recent report by the International Labour Organization (ILO). The report pointed out that many people are working in jobs that do not match their...

-The Hindu A troubled Meghalaya will see unrest growing until 2023, when the next elections are due, says the editor of ‘The Shillong Times’, Patricia Mukhim On August 13, an ailing former leader of an armed group was shot dead in the middle of the night at his home in Shillong by a police team. The incident led to unrest in Mawlai where the encounter occurred and resonated in the adjoining neighbourhoods...

-Newsclick.in Story of the tribal women of South Gujarat who form nearly half the workforce of 2.5 lakh sugarcane workers yet are the worst exploited in the sugar industry Manisha Sunilbhai Shinde, a tribal sugarcane worker of Jarsol village in Dang, Gujarat, is a mother of one at the age of 20. Married to a sugarcane labourer at the age of 15, she went from working in her parent’s koyta unit to...

-Newsclick.in The study pointed out that women, who are more experienced, possess higher educational qualifications and belong to higher income groups, along with being upper caste and non-migrants. A study has found that one-fifth of the women working in Delhi’s informal sector migrated to the formal sector between 2010 and 2019. The study was conducted by the Institute for Human Development (IHD) on women employed in the informal sector in the national capital....

The recently released quarterly Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data broadly confirms the dip in employment and jobs during the countrywide lockdown period, followed by a certain degree of recovery in the post-lockdown months last year as have been indicated by various survey-based studies and research papers. The quarterly bulletin on PLFS provides data on key employment and unemployment indicators i.e. Unemployment Rate (UR), Worker Population Ratio (WPR) and Labour...