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Updated on: Jun 2020

Labour Law

Supreme Court Employers and Employees to Negotiate

Jun 12, 2020

Consulting firms defer salaries and promotions, Partners take pay cuts

Consulting firms Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, EY defer salaries and promotions, Partners take pay cuts The I...

Coronavirus

Jun 12, 2020

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WFH A Leapfrog into Future

What has long believed to be the future of work as per theories has abruptly become a reality, thank...

Coronavirus

Jun 11, 2020

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Atul Srivastava, Director- HR, SAIL passed away last night

Atul Srivastava,nbspDirector- Personnel, Steel Authority of India Limited SAILnbsppassed away ...

Demise

Jun 11, 2020

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Industry

Capgemini partners Coursera to upskill employees

Capgemini Partners with Coursera to Upskill Employees and Promote a Culture of Lifelong Learning IT services firm, Capgemini has partnered with edtech major, Coursera, to give access to high-quality learning to all its employees across the globe. Currently, Capgemini’s employees in nearly 50 countries will have access to 4,000 courses on Coursera for Business. No one […]

Jun 11, 2020

Jobs

TCS iON partners with NSDC to speed-up skill development

TCS iON, a strategic unit of Tata Consultancy Services, on Wednesday said it has partnered with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) to provide its training partners access to digital skilling tools using TCS” iON Digital Glass Room. The partnership aims to strengthen NSDC”s online content aggregation platform – eSkill India – through which it […]

Jun 10, 2020

CHRO Move

Former AirAsia Chief People Officer Varun Bhatia joins Reali

Reali, the real estate technology company, announced the hiring of Varun Bhatia to join the leadership team as the company’s first Chief People Officer. In his new role as the Chief People Officer of Reali, Varun is to work closely with the Leadership team to build & scale the Reali organization using a high tech-high touch approach […]

Jun 10, 2020

CHRO Move

Fetch Rewards appoints Indian origin Chief People Officer

US-based Fetch Rewards announced that it has appointed Rukmini Banerjee as its Chief People Officer, effective from March 2020. In her new role, she will create and oversee talent development efforts at Fetch, establishing training programs, designing career-pathing models, and recruiting new talent to the rapidly expanding company. Mike Kent, president, and COO of Fetch […]

Jun 10, 2020

Coronavirus

Most of TCS, Infosys, Wipro employees continue to WFH

Even after Unlock 1, most of the employees working at TCS, Infosys, Wipro employees continue to work from home- Report Over 95% of employees at the top 3 IT companies continue to work from home TCS, Infosys, Wipro adopt a phased approach towards reopening offices TCS recently said only 25% of its employees will need […]

Jun 9, 2020

Coronavirus

BP to lay off 10,000 employees globally

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Oil & Energy major British Petroleum to lay off 10,000 employees globally from its workforce globally by the end of the year. The total employees to be laid off are 15% of the total global workforce, this announcement was made via an e-mail sent to the 70,000 strong workforces of the […]

Jun 9, 2020

Industry

TCG Lifesciences releases full annual bonus to employees, plans to hire more

TCG Lifesciences, leading contract research and manufacturing services company, plans to increase its workforce by 15 percent in the current fiscal and has released a full annual bonus to its employees to boost their morale in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, an official said on Monday. The company, promoted by Purnendu Chatterjee Group, has […]

Jun 9, 2020

Jobs

GoAir fires pilot who abused Holy Hindu Goddess on Twitter

GoAir has terminated the services of a trainee pilot over hate tweets allegedly from an account by his name, but now the employee has come out and said that he has been wrongfully terminated, as it was a tweet by another person of the same name. A Twitter account of Asif Khan with the id ‘@MdAsif35534489‘, posted objectionable and […]

Jun 8, 2020

Coronavirus

Bombardier Inc to cut 2,500 aviation jobs

CANADIAN plane and train maker Bombardier Inc said on Friday it would cut 2,500 jobs, or about 11% of the workforce at its aviation unit, as the coronavirus pandemic’s crushing impact on the air industry adds to its long list of problems. The aviation industry has been among the worst hit by the pandemic, which has dented […]

Jun 6, 2020

Coronavirus

Iffco Tokio hires 400 in lockdown, given annual increment

IFFCO-Tokio General Insurance hires 400 during the lockdown and rolled out annual increments Iffco Tokio General Insurance has on-boarded 400 staff between March and May during the lockdown period. The hiring of some of the employees was planned in the first quarter but the lockdown shifted its plans. The company has completed the process over […]

Jun 5, 2020

Coronavirus

Major Paradigm Shift in Workplace Culture Post COVID-19

The world around us has changed drastically with the COVID-19 pandemic impacting almost every aspect of our lives. It has changed the way we shop, dine, party, learn, communicate, exercise, the list is endless. A major paradigm shift has been in the way we work. Cushman & Wakefield have recently come up with a new design […]

Jun 5, 2020

Labour Law

SC reserves verdict on Centre’s Wages order in Lockdown

The Supreme Court of India on 4 June 2020, Thursday reserved its verdict for 12 June on pleas challenging Centre’s March 29 order asking employers to pay full wages to employees for the lockdown period. However, The Supreme Court said that no coercive action will be taken against any employer for violating MHA’s order. Earlier, The SC had asked the Centre […]

Jun 5, 2020