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P&G Health announces First-of-its-kind Caregiving Policies

This Mother’s Day, P&G Health India celebrates the contribution of all caregivers by announcing First-of-its-kind caregiving policies for employees. Through a First-of-its-Kind policy, P&G Health India will be providing end-to-end support for all employees who are caregivers to children with special needs (applicable for children upto 18years of age). The holistic support policy for children […]

Layoffs

Google will be reducing contract workforce supporting YouTube

According to the reports of Business Insider, Google is ending contracts with firms such as Cognizant and Accenture, which employ workers involved in supporting various YouTube services. Google’s reduction will impact Cognizant and Accenture. However, the exact number of impacted Cognizant workers is not clear. Additionally, the cuts were announced to Cognizant workers at the […]

Ex-Amazon employee landed with 30% hike after being laid off

The e-commerce giant, Amazon earlier in January announced 18,000 layoffs globally to cut costs. One of the Ex-Amazon employee Arideep Dutta shared his experience of getting multiple job offers after being laid off. He was Software Development Engineer at Amazon and started working with the organization in April 2022 and worked till March 2023. Arideep […]

EPFO

EPFO: Latest Guideline on Higher Pension EPS-95

The Hon’ble Supreme Court, in its judgment dated 04.11.2022 in Civil Appeal No. 8143-8144 of 2022 titled the (EPFO) Employees Provident Fund Organisation & Anr. etc. Vs. Sunil Kumar B. and Ors. etc., while upholding the validity of the amendments made to the Employees’ Pension Scheme,1995 (EPS,1995) vide G.S.R 609 (E) dated 22.08.2014 (effective from […]

Layoffs

Amazon India layoffs: Tech giant lays off about 500 employees

An American multinational technology company focusing on e-commerce, Amazon is laying off about 500 employees in India. According to the reports of the Economic Times, Amazon India will layoffs across different businesses and functions including Amazon Web Services (AWS), human resources, and support functions. Additionally, Some of Amazon’s onboarding functions in tier-2 cities such as […]

Hiring

Government of Rajasthan Young Interns Program (YIP)– 2023

The State government (Government of Rajasthan) has been running the Young Interns Program (YIP) for ten years. In the budget announcement of FY 2023-24, Hon’ble Chief Minister has made a provision for 250 young interns out of which the provision of the following numbers of interns for Divisional HQs and other District HQs, is to […]

Event

HR Leaders unanimous on capitalising ‘Tech at Workplace’

SHRM India, the world’s largest HR organisation has concluded its two-day mega event – ‘SHRMI Tech23 Conference and Expo’ at HICC Novotel, Hyderabad. Scheduled on 11th – 12th May 2023, the conference witnessed a huge gathering of more than 120+ Speakers, 500+ CXOs, and 4000+ HR & Tech Leaders who attended over 60+ Sessions comprising […]

TCS, Infosys, HCL, Wipro | What is Future of IT Sector in FY24?

Amid the global layoffs and economic uncertainty, recently, India’s top four IT companies TCS, Infosys, Wipro, and HCL Tech have released their fourth-quarter results ending on March 31, 2024. Here we’re sharing a comparative analysis based on Revenue, Attrition, Headcounts, and Hiring pattern of IT services major TCS, Infosys, Wipro, and HCL Tech in India. Revenue […]

ISRO is offering “START” training for students, last date May 20

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced a new introductory-level online training programme called Space Science and Technology Awareness Training (START). START is an introductory-level online training in space science and technology for undergraduate and postgraduate students of science and technology. Objectives The main objective of the training programme is to attract youngsters to […]

Appointments

Reliance Industries gets Abhisekh Rudra as Head- HR, RCS Unit

An Indian multinational conglomerate, Reliance Industries Limited has appointed Abhisekh Rudra as Head of HR for their Reliance Composites Solutions (RCS) Unit based at Vadodara. In this role, he will be responsible for the expansive role of Head HR for the company. Additionally, he will be in a supervisory role in HR which extends from […]

Haryana new Liquor Policy: Employees can have drinks at workplace

The Haryana government has introduced a new excise policy for the year 2023-24 which will be effective from June 12 and was approved by the Haryana Council of Ministers on May 9. The Haryana government’s new liquor policy 2023-24 allows possession and consumption of beer, wine, and ready-to-drink beverages by staff in a corporate office. […]

Appointments

Vedanta appoints Sonal Shrivastava as Chief Financial Officer

Vedanta Limited, a globally diversified natural resources conglomerate, announced the appointment of Sonal Shrivastava as the Chief Financial Officer, effective June 1, 2023. Sonal brings more than 26 years of financial leadership across sectors as the company continues its next phase of growth. Sonal joins Vedanta from Holcim Group where she worked as the CFO […]