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Updated on: Jun 2021

Appointments

IMF HR Head Kalpana Kochhar to join Bill Melinda Gates Foundation

Jun 4, 2021

Leela Palaces Hotels and Resorts ropes in new VP-HR from HDFC ERGO

Leela Palaces Hotels and Resorts ropes in Gautam Srivastava as new VP- Corporate HR from HDFC ERGO T...

Appointments

Jun 4, 2021

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Tata Group appoints Anand Shankar as SVP Group Human Resources

Tata Group appoints Anand Shankar as SVP Group Human Resources amp Director TMTC Tata Tom...

Appointments

Jun 3, 2021

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Apple asks staff to return to office days a week, effective Sept

Employees also have the chance to work remotely for up to two weeks a year Apple employees are being...

Industry

Jun 3, 2021

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Industry

Procter & Gamble to set up a new manufacturing unit at Sanand, Gujarat

P&G to set up a new manufacturing unit at Sanand, plans to hire more than 30% women Procter & Gamble (P&G), American multinational consumer goods, plans to invest more than 50 billion rupees to set up a health and wellness product manufacturing plant in Sanand, Gujarat. The company will hire more than 30% of women […]

Jun 3, 2021

Labour Law

Govt forms panel for fixation of Minimum Wages and National Floor Wages

Government of India forms panel for fixation of Minimum Wages and National Floor Wages The government of India has issued an order and has constituted the Expert Group Panel to provide technical inputs and recommendations on the fixation of Minimum Wages and National Floor Minimum Wages. The Group has been constituted for a period of […]

Jun 3, 2021

Coronavirus

Reliance Industries announces COVID-19 bereavement support

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) announces COVID-19 bereavement support to the families of employees who lost their lives due to the COVID-19. The company’s support will help the families to rebuild their lives. RIL COVID-19 bereavement support includes: Financial Aid: RIL will pay the last-drawn salary to the deceased employee’s family for the next 05 years. One […]

Jun 3, 2021

Industry

TCS rolled out salary hike from April 2021, what is the percentage?

TCS is giving two salary hikes within 6 months, OCT 2020 and April 2021? India’s largest information technology (IT) firm, TCS, has announced a salary hike for its over 469,000 employees from April 2021. As per media reports, this was the second salary hike in six months by the company in FY22. TCS became the […]

Jun 3, 2021

Industry

Fidelity International rolls out new ‘Dynamic Working’ policy for employees

Dynamic Working Policy enables Fidelity employees to have more flexibility in managing their own working pattern Fidelity International (Fidelity) offers employees the opportunity to work more flexibly as part of a new ‘Dynamic Working’ policy, which comes into effect immediately. The new policy allows the majority of employees across more than 25 locations worldwide the […]

Jun 2, 2021

Merger & Acquisition

KKR has acquired Wipro stake in IT Services Co Ensono

Wipro has sold its entire stake in IT Services Provider Ensono for $76.24 Bengaluru-based, IT major, Wipro has sold its entire stake in hybrid IT services provider Ensono for $76.24 (about Rs 51.7 crore) to global investment firm KKR. “As part of the recently announced acquisition of Ensono by KKR, Wipro has sold its entire […]

Jun 2, 2021

Appointments

CNSI appoints Shilpa Bidathanapalli as Vice President- Human Resources

Shilpa Bidathanapalli Joins CNSI as Vice President- Human Resources CNSI, a leading business solutions provider in developing and delivering innovative healthcare management solutions, has announced the appointment of Shilpa Bidathanapalli as Vice President, Human Resources. She will serve as VP- Human Resources for CNSI’s operations in Chennai, India. In partnership with the team in the United States. In her new role, […]

Jun 2, 2021

Coronavirus

Daimler India rolls out initiatives to help dealer partners, staff amid COVID

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) rolls out initiatives to help dealer partners, staff amid COVID Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) has announced a slew of initiatives, including vaccinations, insurance cover, and incentives, among others, to help its dealer partners and staff during the ongoing pandemic. The new support package increases the assistance offered to dealerships to include Rs 2-lakh COVID group insurance, […]

Jun 2, 2021

Tech

Leading with the help of HR Tech in 2nd wave of COVID-19

Role of HR Tech technology in the second wave of COVID-19 Pandemic Like the rest of civilization, we hoped that by the time the vacation season was knocking at our door things would be to some extent where we didn’t need to worry about a second wave. But we all know the inevitable reality that […]

Jun 2, 2021

Industry

TCS has chalked out a plan to bring employees back to offices

Tata Consultancy Services has chalked out a plan to bring more employees back to offices India’s largest IT services company, TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) has chalked out a plan to bring employees back to offices, for this purpose the company has prepared a risk assessment model- Intelligent Urban Exchange to assess how to bring back a […]

Jun 2, 2021

Labour Law

Centre issues advisory to encourage work from home for nursing mothers

Encourage Work-from-home for Nursing Mothers: Govt Issues Advisory to States, UTs Amid Covid The government of India on Tuesday has issued an advisory to all the State Governments/UTs to encourage work-from-home (WFH) for nursing mothers under the enabling provision for permitting work from home for nursing mothers under Section 5 (5) of the Maternity Benefit […]

Jun 1, 2021

Coronavirus

Avery Dennison actions to support employees, society amid Covid-19

Avery Dennison launches programs to support its employees & society in the pandemic Avery Dennison, the global materials science and manufacturing company, has introduced a series of initiatives to support its employees and local communities. Highlighting the company’s employee welfare initiatives, Manvi Sushil, Director HR, Avery Dennison India said, “As India rallies to manage one […]

Jun 1, 2021