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The Centre has issued a fresh set of guidelines for the Lockdown 2,0, which list a number of relaxations that will come into force post-April 20. The government has said that it will allow agriculture, construction, Information Technology, industrial units in the SEZs and rural areas to function if they follow lockdown guidelines to a […]
IT giant Wipro has deferred annual increments and scheduled promotions for the month of June for most of its employees and postponed campus hiring amid the coronavirus pandemic. Abidali Neemuchwala, CEO, Wipro said, “There has to be a trade-off, which will be in hiring, salary increases, and sub-contracting costs.” Saurabh Govil President and CHRO, Wipro said […]
EPFO and ESIC have been advised to collate the data on job losses and wage cuts. As soon as information is collated a report can be introduced to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). This labour ministry initiative comes as stressed economic situation has raised fears of widespread layoffs/salary reductions in India’s organized sector and in […]
MUMBAI:Largest Indian software exporter TCS on Thursday said it will not retrench any of its nearly 4.5 lakh employees, but has decided not to give any salary hikes this year. The Tata group company said it will honour each of its commitments on new hires by taking all the 40,000 people who have been given offers […]
Accenture and Verizon launches People + Work, B2B platform to match laid-off workers with open positions As unemployment surpasses record highs due to COVID-19, a group of leading companies from multiple industries has formed People + Work Connect, an employer-to-employer initiative that brings together companies laying off or furloughing people with those companies in urgent […]
Vistara CEO Leslie Thng on Wednesday announced that senior employees will be going on compulsory leave without pay for up to three days between April 15 and April 30 as a measure to further conserve the airline’s cash flow amid the lockdown to combat the coronavirus threat. On March 27, the airline had also introduced […]
The Ministry of Home Affairs in its revised lockdown guidelines allowed several services to remain operational from April 20. The MHA said in its directive ‘to mitigate hardship to the public‘, select additional activities have been allowed which will come into effect from 20 April 2020. These limited exemptions will be operationalized by States, UTs, district administrations based […]
Capgemini India announces the single-digit salary hike to 70 percent of its staff or 84000 employees in India, effective April 1, 2020. The company has 1.2 lakh employees in India, of which 70% or 84,000 employees will be benefitted from this decision. The rest of the employees of Capgemini India will get their increments in […]
Coronavirus global pandemic has affected every workplace, in one way or another. The employers have closed their doors temporarily due to lockdown and asked their employees to work from home, Companies have given extra paid or special paid leave or unpaid leave to employees with health concerns. While the worst of the coronavirus outbreak will […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
