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Updated on: Apr 2020

Jobs

TCS, Cognizant, HUL to honour job offers made to campus hires

Apr 14, 2020

Grofers is looking at hiring , employees

Online grocery platform Grofers is looking at hiring , employees to ramp up its capacity to meet...

Jobs

Apr 14, 2020

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Twitter HR Veterans on COVID- Pandemic

Coronavirus global pandemic has affected every workplace, in one way or another. The employers have ...

Coronavirus

Apr 14, 2020

Latest news: Twitter HR Veterans on COVID- Pandemic - SightsIn Plus

Cashfree Payments appoints a new HR Head

Cashfree Payments India Pvt. Ltd. has appointed Sapna Sukumar as the Head of Human Resources Cashfre...

CHRO Move

Apr 13, 2020

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Coronavirus

Lockdown: Anxiety Levels Up Among Employees As Appraisals Get Delayed, Job Loss Fears Rise

A lot many are fearing loss of job, some have already seen pay cuts and appraisals are getting delayed almost for everyone — The Covid-19 crisis and the ongoing lockdown has left employees feeling anxious and worried about their future, prompting many corporates to look for ways to keep the staff motivated. Some are roping […]

Apr 13, 2020

Labour Law

Govt notifies EPF scheme under PM Gareeb Kalyan Yojna

The labour ministry on 10th April, Friday notified the special scheme wherein the government will contribute 24% of the employee and employer provident fund share per month for three months to PF accounts of employees earning less than Rs 15,000 to tide over the impact of Covid-19 on small establishments. “EPFO puts in place Online […]

Apr 13, 2020

Survey & Report

India jobless rate swells above 23% amid lockdown: Survey

India’s unemployment rate could have climbed to more than 20% as the economy lost jobs after a nationwide lockdown took effect in the last week of March, according to a survey by the CMIE Center for Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt. Ltd. The jobless rate was 23.4% for the week ended April 5 based on a sample size […]

Apr 10, 2020

Jobs

Google bans employees from using Zoom

Google is issuing a ban on the use of the Zoom teleconferencing platform for employees citing security concerns. “Google emailed employees last week about the ban, telling workers who had the Zoom app installed on their Google-provided machines that the software would soon no longer function.” According to Google spokesperson, Zoom‘s desktop client doesn’t meet […]

Apr 10, 2020

CHRO Move

Dabur appoints new Head- HR from Nestle

Dabur has appointed Biplab Baksi as Executive Director- HR. He replaces V Krishnan who is on his way out and is serving the notice period. In his new role, Biplab will be responsible for all HR functions across domestic and international entities of the company and he will report to CEO Mohit Malhotra. Biplab has […]

Apr 10, 2020

Jobs

COVID-19: Govt to release Income Tax refunds immediately

Today, the Income Tax Department, on its official Twitter handle, announced that Government of India to give income tax refunds up to Rs 5 lakh immediately due to coronavirus impact. According to the announcement “In context of COVID-19 situation & to grant immediate relief to taxpayers, GOI has decided to issue all pending income-tax refunds […]

Apr 8, 2020

Jobs

Capgemini tweaks its leave policy in India

Capgemini tweaks its leave policy in India amid coronavirus lockdown According to a Business Standard Report, firm Capgemini has tweaked its leave policy in India temporarily apart from deferring increments and promotions of senior-level employees by one quarter. Capgemini India said, We had tweaked leave accumulation only up to Q2 (FY21) end, and only as an interim measure. […]

Apr 7, 2020

Jobs

TCS offers a free, 15-day digital certification programme

TCS iON, a strategic unit of Tata Consultancy Services, announced on Monday a free, 15-day self-paced digital certification program called Career Edge, specially designed for college students/working professionals to enhance their career skills by helping them effectively utilize the time at hand during this period of lockdown. Since all the colleges and workplaces are closed […]

Apr 6, 2020

Coronavirus

Coronavirus has plunged World into Recession: IMF

The coronavirus pandemic has brought the global economy to a standstill and plunged the world into a recession that will be “way worse” than the global financial crisis a decade ago, the head of the International Monetary Fund said, calling it “humanity’s darkest hour.” The IMF’s Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, speaking at a rare joint […]

Apr 5, 2020

Blogosphere

Three key ideas on Tough Times: A perspective from CHRO

What a last couple of weeks it has been! The Covid-19 pandemic has been unprecedented in terms of the scale of the disruption to our normal activities. In India, we are in the middle of a lockdown that has seen organizations accelerate ‘work from home’ on a scale we didn’t think possible some time back. […]

Apr 4, 2020

Labour Law

ESIC extends the validity of Medical Benefit Cards

Government extends the validity of Medical Benefit Cards under ESIC till June 30, 2020 The validity of Medical Benefit Cards issued to the IPs who ceased to be in Insurable Employment due to Permanent Disablement or, to retired IPs who couldn’t pay the advance contribution due to COVID-19 pandemic, has been allowed to avail medical […]

Apr 3, 2020

Merger & Acquisition

Unilever confirms completion of HUL-GSK merger

Fifteen months after announcing the merger with GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Ltd (GSKCH), FMCG major Hindustan Unilever on Wednesday, 1st April 2020 confirms that it has successfully completed the merger of GSKCH with HUL. “This (merger) will enable HUL to utilise cash on its balance sheet and create value for shareholders. In addition, it will enable […]

Apr 3, 2020