NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Business groups on Thursday welcomed contentious and long-delayed labour reforms passed by India's parliament this week, aimed at making hiring and firing workers easier and ...

How do you say "take this job and shove it" in Tamil? According to a new report from Rest of World, Indian unions are fighting back against... For more crisp and insightful business and economic news, ...

They are poor, slum-dwellers, and the lone breadwinners in their families, the majority of them migrants from North Indian states. The desperation to put food on the table has forced them to take on ...

While the new Narendra Modi government is unlikely to announce big changes in the country's strict labor laws in the national budget this week, economists and executives say it needs to move quickly ...

Today’s report indicates that Foxconn and Apple were two of the primary drivers behind lobbying for these labor changes in India. One of the biggest changes introduced is that “two-shift production” ...

What just happened? India wants to become the next big manufacturing hub of the world and provide companies like Apple the perfect environment to move the bulk of their production from China. So much ...