India, Denmark sign MoU on labour mobility

October 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Australian and Indian Governments have stepped up their joint efforts to address issues affecting the 100,000 Indian students in Australia. The Joint Working Group (JWG) on Student Mobility met for the first time on 6 October, agreeing on a number of concrete measures to enhance the interests and welfare of Indian students.

October 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government is working to sign a Labour Mobility Partnership agreement with the European Union, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi said here Monday. The minister, who returned from a European tour Saturday, said the landmark agreement signed with Denmark on Labour Mobility Partnership last week would "enable Danish industry and business to recruit Indians on the fast track".

October 2nd, 2009 CHENNAI - Tamil Nadu's Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin met representatives of All India Trade Union Central Committee (AITUCC), a trade union affiliated to the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), here Friday to discuss the labour unrest at automotive component manufacturer Pricol.

September 4th, 2009 Denmark to send 140 peacekeepers to LebanonCOPENHAGEN — Denmark says it plans to send about 140 troops to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon.

August 19th, 2009 KOLKATA - Exports from Denmark to India are expected to grow by 25 percent by 2010, a senior Danish diplomat said here Wednesday. "The boost in exports will come from the healthcare, machinery and energy sectors," said Peter Sand, commercial counsellor at the embassy of Denmark, at an interactive session organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

July 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a bid to facilitate safe and legal migration of skilled Indian workers in Denmark, India will sign a bilateral social security agreement with the European country next month. Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi said on Sunday that negotiations on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Denmark have already been completed, and it is likely to be signed next month after the budget session of Parliament.

July 4th, 2009 CHENNAI - A nationwide strike planned by employees of State Bank of India (SBI) and its six associate banks for July 6 against the merger of State Bank of Indore with SBI has been deferred, a union leader said Saturday. "The bank management has been advised by the deputy chief labour commissioner to discuss the issue with unions before pursuing the merger issue with the Reserve Bank of India and the central government," said C.H.

June 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Union Cabinet today approved the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on labour mobility partnership agreement between India and Denmark. The objectives of the MOU is to facilitate safe and legal migration by promoting orderly migration of workers from India to meet the growing demand for skilled and trained workers in the Danish economy and to prevent illegal migration and the smuggling of people for financial benefits.

June 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Saying that New Delhi is not doing enough to curb human smuggling, the US has placed India on Tier 2 watch list of countries in a report on global trafficking released by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "India is a source, destination, and transit country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation," said the 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report released by Clinton Tuesday.

June 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Wednesday signed a labour agreement with Bahrain that will facilitate better worker mobilisation between the two countries. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) on labour and manpower development was signed by Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi and Bahraini Labour Minister Majeed Bin Muhsin Al Alawi in Bahrain.

June 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US has placed India on tier 2 watch list of countries in a report on human trafficking, saying New Delhi is not doing enough to address the issue. "India is a source, destination, and transit country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labour and commercial sexual exploitation," said the 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report released by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Tuesday.

June 5th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US companies shed only 345,000 jobs in May, the smallest drop in eight months and a sign that the US recession may be easing, but the unemployment rate still jumped half a percentage point to 9.4 percent, the Labour Department reported Friday. The US has now lost six million jobs since a deep recession began in December 2007, but the monthly data was far better than economists had predicted.

March 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the state government to rehabilitate rescued child labour and pulled it up for its callous attitude towards them. A division bench headed by Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Sanjeev Khanna lashed out at the the labour department of the Delhi government for not taking steps to rehabilitate rescue child labour.

January 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - An 11-year-old girl, who was working as a domestic help with a Delhi family, was rescued and sent to a protection and care house in the capital Wednesday, an official said. Officials of the Labour Department, Delhi Police and members of All India Democratic Women's Association rescued the girl child from the family in Paschim Vihar in west Delhi.

January 6th, 2009 KOLKATA - There will be around 15 percent rise in bilateral trade between India and Denmark in 2008-09, the Danish envoy said here Wednesday. 'We expect the bilateral economic activity between India and Denmark to rise up to 15 percent in 2008-09 compared to the corresponding period last year,' Ambassador of Denmark Ole Lonsmann Poulsen told reporters on the sidelines of a seminar organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) here.