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Updated on: Jan 2020

Jobs

Gig Workers may soon have to register under GST

Jan 20, 2020

Vodafone Ideas SVP HR Ranjan Mishra joins Diebold Nixdorf

Diebold Nixdorf appoints Ranjan Mishra as Director- Human Resources, India. He will assume the posit...

CHRO Move

Jan 20, 2020

Latest news: Vodafone Ideas SVP HR Ranjan Mishra joins Diebold Nixdorf - SightsIn Plus

Amazon to create lakh new jobs in India by

Amazon announced that it is planning to create million new jobs in India by through continued...

Jobs

Jan 17, 2020

Flipkart to create , local Jobs, opens two warehouses in Haryana

Walmart-owned Flipkart on January said that it is strengthening its supply chain infrastructure b...

Jobs

Jan 17, 2020

Jobs

Oyo rooms notifies employees about layoffs via emails

SoftBank-backed Oyo to fire 2,400 employees in India over this week, it has begun the process of notifying thousands of staffers individually about their status in the organization through individual emails. The Layoffs in Delhi and Jaipur were communicated to the staff on Monday, while in Gurgaon employees were notified on Tuesday, 14th Jan 2020. According to an […]

Jan 16, 2020

Jobs

CGI plans to hire 15,000 over the next 5 years

Canadian IT and business consulting services firms, CGI plans to hire nearly 15,000 people in India over the next four to five years. CGI offers an extensive global delivery network made up of numerous centres of excellence strategically located around the world to meet the needs of our clients. In India, there are over 15,000 […]

Jan 16, 2020

Survey & Report

Budget 2020- likely to lower the tax rates for middle-income taxpayers

2019 has been a year when the economy went through various phases of economic swings and by now it has been accepted that there is a slowdown in the economy. The run-up to the budget has always been full of expectation and excitement. But this time around, the Budget 2020 has grabbed a lot more […]

Jan 15, 2020

Jobs

Wipro doubles campus hiring this year

Wipro has doubled its campus hiring in FY20 as compared to the FY19, and it will continue this momentum, said Saurabh Govil, Chief Human Resources Officer, Wipro. Our localization journey in the US started three years ago. We built a local campus hiring plan in the US, added Saurabh Govil without telling the exact number of […]

Jan 15, 2020

Survey & Report

10% of working women face sexual harassment at the workplace: Report

According to a Hindustan Times report, A total of 10% of working women face sexual harassment at the workplace; 37.14% of women in India are facing issues related to their health; while 44.8% of women are employed, according to the ‘Status of Women in India report’. Maneesha Kothekar, project director of the report said, “Through […]

Jan 15, 2020

Jobs

Amazon fires many employees for leaking customer data

Amazon recently fired many employees that were involved in leaking customer email addresses and phone numbers to an unspecified third party. It is the second time, this week the technology giant acknowledged some workers had improperly accessed customer data. “We are writing to let you know that your email address and phone number were disclosed […]

Jan 14, 2020

CHRO Move

Emcure’s President- HR, Prashant Parashar joins CleverTap as CHRO

Former President, Global Human Resources of Emcure Pharmaceuticals Limited, Prashant Parashar joins CleverTap as Chief Human Resources Officer. His appointment is effective from January 2020. CleverTap is a SaaS-based customer lifecycle management and mobile marketing company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It provides mobile app analytics and user engagement products to more than 8000 companies. Prashant is […]

Jan 14, 2020

Jobs

Oyo lays off around 1,800 employees across India and China

According to a report in Bloomberg, SoftBank-backed Oyo Hotels is in the process of handing out pink slips to thousands of employees in India and China. The company has let go of 5 percent of its 12,000 employees in China due to non-performance. This amounts to around 600 employees in the Chinese unit. Meanwhile, in India, Oyo is […]

Jan 13, 2020

Jobs

Walmart announces the layoffs of top executives across divisions

Walmart India is in the process of sacking around a third of its top executives based at local headquarters in Gurgaon. According to a report in The Economic Times, the company has announced the layoffs of more than 100 senior executives including vice presidents across sourcing, agri-business and the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) divisions. And […]

Jan 13, 2020

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ITC Infotech presents PRARAMBH a learning platform to bridge the gap between Institutes and Industries

ITC Infotech presents ‘Prarambh’, a unique initiative that rapidly bridges the gap between educational institutions and the technology industry in India. It is a holistic platform where students can connect and learn from the best minds in the industry and get feedback. Suchismita Burman, Chief Human Resources Officer, ITC Infotech said, “At ITC Infotech our […]

Jan 11, 2020

Labour Law

Millions of gig workers set to get health coverage and other benefits soon: PSC

The inclusion of “gig workers” in new labour laws, offering millions of informal workers of companies like Uber, Ola, Zomato, Swiggy, Dunzo, etc benefits such as health insurance and other schemes, is set to be okayed by Parliament’s standing committee on labour which concluded its discussions on 9th Jan 2020, Thursday. In its brief to the committee, headed […]

Jan 10, 2020

Strike

200 million workers to join a nationwide strike on January 8: Trade unions

Over 10 trade unions and more than 200 million workers from all sectors, including banking, coal, oil, defence, public sector enterprises, and transport, will join the general strike to protest against the Centre’s “anti-people” policies. The unions had in September last year adopted a declaration to go on a nationwide strike, seeking reversal of many […]

Jan 7, 2020