Surveys have also shown consumer confidence, manufacturing and services industries stabilising albeit at low levels in May, indicating the downturn triggered by Covid-19 pandemic was bottoming.
The amount of people filing for benefits doubled compared to the week before, as businesses hit by the coronavirus continue to fire workers.
With the highest chore gap in the world, women in India currently spend 352 minutes per day on unpaid work, compared to the 52 minutes that men spend carrying out unpaid tasks.
Experts say the anger and frustration among millions of Indian workers is likely to hurt the electoral prospects of the ruling BJP, as the countdown to the 2019 national election in April begins.
Supporters of the minimum wage say it will reduce inequality and stimulate economic growth as workers spend more. But critics say it could lead to increased unemployment.
Protests against the policy and other measures of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government have been taking place for over a week. There have been occasional clashes between protesters and police.
Two opposition politicians, who planned to to read out a petition, removed from state broadcaster MTVA building in Budapest amid protests against a new labour law.
Since Saturday last week, large demonstrations were held across the country against soaring oil prices. But is it just about fuel?
Court filings made public this week reveal that women working at the company in US-based technical jobs filed 238 internal complaints about gender discrimination or sexual harassment between 2010 and 2016.
Nearly one million employees with Germany's powerful metalworking union IG Metall won higher pay and the right to a reduced working week.
Measures revealed by France’s centrist government will loosen labour regulations and boost employment but unions have criticised them.
Over 50 percent of girls were smuggled from West Bengal state on Nepalese passports to the Middle East and Southeast Asia, Indian non-profit says.
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