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Updated on: May 2020

Labour Law

EPFO Clarification on EPF contribution from to

May 25, 2020

Tata Group top execs to take up to salary cut

Tata Group top execs to take up to salary cut in an effort to conserve cash For the first time i...

Coronavirus

May 25, 2020

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Snapdeal furloughs - staff whilst demand picks up

An Indian e-commerce company, Snapdeal has put about of its full-time workforce, or - individ...

Coronavirus

May 25, 2020

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InterContinental Hotels Group appoints new Head HR

InterContinental Hotels Group IHG appoints Vinay Jaswal as a new Head HR, South West Asia effecti...

CHRO Move

May 25, 2020

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Coronavirus

An employee at Maruti plant tests positive for Covid-19

An employee at Maruti Suzuki’s Manesar plant has tested positive for COVID-19, according to a company spokesperson. The company is also looking at “a possibility of a second case” of infection at the facility but has ruled out any impact on the business part due to the situation. The country’s largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki India […]

May 24, 2020

Coronavirus

IBM confirms global layoffs, India employees hit with it too

IBM confirmed, it is cutting an unspecified number of jobs, but wouldn’t provide details related to location, departments, or the number of employees involved. The company framed it in terms of replacing people with more needed skills as it tries to regroup under new CEO Arvind Krishna. Several business media sites, including the Wall Street Journal and […]

May 23, 2020

Coronavirus

Cleartrip has laid off 400-500 employees

Cleartrip has laid off 400-500 employees. the company’s spokesperson said the Covid-19 crisis has caused severe business disruption in the travel industry. The spokesperson said, “we have had to reluctantly downsize our workforce. We are providing all necessary support to affected employees.” When TOI asked about the number of employees affected, the company declined to share details. It has around 1,000 employees. […]

May 23, 2020

Coronavirus

HCL to pay bonuses, no pay cuts, honour existing offers

IT firm, HCL has emphatically declared that despite the slowdown, and the economic impact of coronavirus, they will pay all promised bonuses all 150,000 employees, will honour the nearly 15,000 job offers already made to freshers, and no salary cuts for any employee. Apparao VV, Chief Human Resources Officer, HCL said that HCL won’t roll […]

May 22, 2020

Coronavirus

Indiabulls asked nearly 2000 employees to resign till 31 May

Indiabulls has asked nearly 2,000 employees to resign from the company. The Company, however, said this was part of the annual attrition cycle and claimed these were not lay-offs The Financial Services Group Indiabulls, On May 15, the group’s Indiabulls Housing Finance asked many of its employees to resign and consider May 31 as their […]

May 22, 2020

Culture & Behaviour

Remote Working Challenges and suggested solutions

“Working from home? Oh! it’s a holiday for you”. Many of us have heard this at different times, from family or friends. I for one, experienced this widely held belief within my social circle, whenever working from home was mentioned. This was of course, the Pre-COVID-19 world (as we knew it). Fast forward to Mar […]

May 22, 2020

Coronavirus

TCS top management takes pay cut as COVID-19 impact

TCS top management takes pay cut in financial year 2020 to conserve cash amid Covid-19 Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has said in an annual report, Chief Executive Officer, Rajesh Gopinathan’s remuneration shrank 16.5% to INR 13.3 crore in 2019-20 compared to the previous fiscal. Gopinathan’s pay package is 214.65 times the median salary of TCS. In […]

May 21, 2020

Coronavirus

ShareChat lays off 25% of its workforce

Sharechat has recently laid off about 101 employees or 25% of its staff as the ongoing coronavirus pandemic impacts ad revenues According to an email sent to employees by Ankush Sachdeva, CEO of ShareChat, the advertisement market would remain unpredictable this year and the firm is streamlining its revenue teams to these new expectations. “We have to […]

May 21, 2020

Coronavirus

Ola to layoff 1,400 employees due to COVID-19 pandemic

Ola has announced the plan to conduct a mass lay-off, affecting around 1,400 of its employees The decision comes in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has resulted in lockdowns that have drastically affected the whole cab-aggregation business of the company. In a company blog post written by the CEO Bhavish Aggarwal, the co-founder of Ola Cabs, made it […]

May 20, 2020

Coronavirus

Livspace lays off 450 employees as coronavirus impacts

IKEA-backed home design and decor startup Livspace is laying off 15% of its workforce as the Covid-19 pandemic and resultant nationwide lockdown hit its business. The Bengaluru-based startup, Livspace Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Anuj Srivastava assured the impacted employees of severance pay along with an assistance package, as part of which every employee will receive a portion of […]

May 20, 2020

Press Release

Infosys partners with Rhode Island in fight against COVID-19

Infosys a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, on 19 May announced that it is partnering with the State of Rhode Island in launching a privacy-first contact tracing solution to help Rhode Islanders and state officials slow the spread of coronavirus throughout the state. This is part of the state’s effort to safely reopen […]

May 20, 2020

Coronavirus

Government withdraws order on compulsory wage payment

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), Government of India has issued an order providing for certain relaxations and guidelines with respect to the fourth phase of the COVID-19 lockdown, which will be in effect till May 31, 2020. Through the order issued on May 17, the MHA has ceased all its previous orders, including the […]

May 19, 2020