Coronavirus: HR News, Trends & Workplace Insights

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Updated on: Mar 2020

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Covid- PwC defers Promotions, Increments and Bonuses

Mar 30, 2020

Ratan Tata commits Rs crore to fight coronavirus

Tata Trusts has committed Rs crore for Indias fight against coronavirus Today, writing on...

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Mar 28, 2020

What are corporates doing to rescue India from Covid-?

India enters its third day of the -day lockdown. Yesterday, the government unveiled a Rs . lakh ...

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Mar 27, 2020

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LAVA pays salary in advance to factory workers

Coronavirus outbreak has forced the government to enforce a lockdown across the country. All non-ess...

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Mar 27, 2020

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Lockdown: Government relaxes EPF withdrawal rules

On the second day of the 21-day lockdown due to Coronavirus outbreak, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced an economic relief package that lays out various schemes to provide cash and free ration. The government also relaxed the rules for withdrawal of funds from the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) account. Relaxation in the EPF withdrawal rules. […]

Mar 26, 2020

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Lockdown: Trade unions demand from PM Modi

Amidst the country lockdown due to Coronavirus outbreak, Trade Unions write to PM Modi asking for financial aid for daily wage labourers. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, both Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) and the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) made a list of demands which include sufficient budget allocation as a relief who […]

Mar 26, 2020

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Kunal Bahl: How startups can survive the COVID-19

While the disruption caused by Covid-19 pandemic is unprecedented and will likely have serious economic consequences, start-ups in India have also been experiencing headwinds in terms of a slowdown in India’s economy over the last 2-3 quarters. Many younger entrepreneurs, investors and other stakeholders have been reaching out to me over the last few weeks […]

Mar 26, 2020

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After IndiGo, GoAir announces pay cuts to its entire staff

After Indigo’s company-wide announcement of top-down 5%-25% salary cut, now India’s other airline, GoAir has extended pay cuts to its entire staff to reduce costs in line with falling revenue as the Covid-19 pandemic severely curtails global demand for air travel. According to an Economic Times report, Vinay Dube, Chief Executive of GoAir said the […]

Mar 25, 2020

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Amazon to hire 100,000 workers amidst Covid-19

Due to the practice in social distancing and quarantine to flatten the curve of the pandemic, there has been a rise in demand by online consumers. According to media sources, the e-commerce giant Amazon said that it would hire 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers in the United States to deal with a surge in online orders. […]

Mar 25, 2020

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Reliance to provide double salaries to its employees

Reliance to provide double salaries to all its employees whose salary is less than Rs 30,000 According to Times of India, Reliance Industries has announced that the employees who are below the salary range of Rs 30000 will be paid their salary twice in order to protect their cash flow and mitigate any overwhelming financial […]

Mar 25, 2020

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Covid-19: India relaxes Income Tax deadlines and penalties

In view of COVID-19 outbreak, India has offered several relaxations under the Income Tax Act and other direct tax laws to assuage taxpayers especially on statutory and regulatory compliance matters related to several sectors. While addressing the press conference through video conferencing here on 24th March, Smt. Sitharaman announced much-needed relief measures in areas of […]

Mar 25, 2020

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Hyundai, Ford, and Bajaj temporarily shut down plants

Amidst Coronavirus outbreak, India’s major automobile companies like Bajaj Auto, Ford Motor, TVS Motor, and Renault-Nissan, etc have announced the temporarily shut down of their manufacturing plants. Two-wheeler major TVS Motor Company in a statement said, “In view of COVID-19, and considering the safety and well being of its employees, the company as an interim […]

Mar 24, 2020

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Covid-19: Vedanta Ltd announces Rs 100-cr fund

Metals and mining giant Vedanta Ltd on Sunday announced setting up of a Rs 100-crore fund to combat the coronavirus outbreak. The fund will be utilised to provide preventive healthcare to daily wage workers, company employees and contract workers in and around various plants of the company, Vedanta said in a statement. “I commit 100 […]

Mar 23, 2020

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Covid-19: Anand Mahindra to contribute his full salary

Anand Mahindra, the Chairman of Mahindra & Mahindra has offered his full salary to deal with Coronavirus. He has also directed his group to immediately begin work on the manufacturing of ventilators at its own factories as Covid-19 appears to be reaching stage 3 of transmission. Anand Mahindra on Sunday tweeted that we will encourage […]

Mar 23, 2020

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TCS can’t allow more than 40% of staff to work from home

In the wake of coronavirus outbreak, IT company TCS has allowed its employees to work from home, but the option has been restricted to about 40% of its employees only because, TCS supports mission-critical systems that run public services, banks and stock exchanges, insurance, and healthcare institutions, telecom & utility providers, retail, consumer goods and […]

Mar 21, 2020

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Tata Group to fully compensate temporary staff amid COVID-19 outbreak

Tata Group companies will ensure full payment to temporary workers and daily wage earners for March and April even if they are unable to come to work due to quarantine measures or site closures amid the coronavirus outbreak, Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran said on Friday. Terming COVID-19 outbreak a major global crisis, Chandrasekaran said […]

Mar 21, 2020