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Updated on: May 2021

Coronavirus

ICICI Lombard gives Months advance salary to COVID- positive employees

May 11, 2021

Max Life starts COVID- platform to provide medical assistance to staff

Max Life starts COVID- platform to provide medical assistance to employees Max Life Insurancenbsp...

Coronavirus

May 11, 2021

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Oliver Wymans Sheetal Gupta joins Patterson Belknap as CIO

Oliver Wymans Sheetal Gupta joins Patterson Belknap as CIO Sheetal Gupta, a former executive ...

Appointments

May 10, 2021

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Polycab India appoints ex- Tata Motors Head- HR as Executive President CHRO

Polycab India appoints ex- Tata Motors Head- HR, Rajesh Nair as Executive President amp Chief Huma...

Appointments

May 10, 2021

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C-Suite Move

Sudhir Sitapati quits HUL, Srinandan Sundaram to replace him

Sudhir Sitapati quits HUL, Srinandan Sundaram to replace him as Executive Director, Foods and Refreshment Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) has confirmed the resignation of its Executive Director- Foods and & Refreshment Sudhir Sitapati and appoints Srinandan Sundaram, currently Executive Director, Customer Development as his replacement with effect from 1st July 2021. Sitapati joined the organization as […]

May 10, 2021

Industry

Virtusa Introduces 24/7 COVID-19 Care Portal for Employees

Virtusa Introduces 24/7 COVID-19 Care Portal for Employees Virtusa Corporation, a global provider of digital strategy, digital engineering, and IT services and solutions, today introduced its 24/7 COVID-19 Care portal with personalised features designed to help ensure the safety of employees during the pandemic. A unique feature of Virtusa’s COVID-19 initiative includes its personalised approach towards each team […]

May 10, 2021

Industry

COVID -19: Glenmark extends Min Rs. 10 Lakhs supports to deceased employees families

COVID -19: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals extends Min Rs. 10 Lakhs supports to deceased employees families Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (GPL), a global research-led pharmaceutical company extends support to deceased employees’ families who lost their lives battling with COVID-19. Announcing the support company said, “It is deeply saddening to know that some of our colleagues who have battled […]

May 10, 2021

Jobs

Centre relaxes attendance rules for employees

Centre relaxes attendance rules for employees On Friday, the Government has issued a fresh set of guidelines for central government employees in terms of physical attendance, working hours, and more amid the rising cases of COVID-19. Staff with disabilities and pregnant women employees have been exempted from attending office, but they shall continue to Work […]

May 10, 2021

Industry

Hero MotoCorp extends shutdown of plants till May 16

Hero MotoCorp extends shutdown of plants across country till May 16 Hero MotoCorp, a two-wheeler market leader said that the company is extending the shutdown of its plants across India by another week till May 16 amid the rising COVID-19 cases in the country. According to the company statement, “It also includes the shutdown of […]

May 10, 2021

Industry

IBM to start an office in Kochi soon, with a new name — Kyndryl

IBM to start an office in Kochi soon, with a new name — Kyndryl Technology giant IBM (International Business Machines Corp) is opening a large office in Kochi soon post-Covid, the company will have a new name — Kyndryl. Kyndryl will be the name of the new, independent company that will be created following the separation of […]

May 10, 2021

Industry

Mahindra Group to set up an advanced design centre in UK

Mahindra Group to set up an advanced design centre in UK Mahindra Group announced the setting up of Mahindra Advanced Design Europe (M.A.D.E) in the West Midlands, UK. The new Centre of Excellence (CoE), will be a part of the Mahindra Global Design Network that includes the Mahindra Design Studio in Mumbai, India, and Pininfarina […]

May 9, 2021

Appointments

Accenture appoints new Chief Marketing & Comms Officer

Accenture appoints Jill Kramer as Chief Marketing & Communications Officer Accenture has announced that Amy Fuller, chief marketing & communications officer, will retire from the company at the end of the fiscal year, Aug. 31, 2021. Jill Kramer, currently global head of brand, will succeed Fuller effective June 1, 2021, and will become a member […]

May 9, 2021

Coronavirus

HCL Tech extends big help for COVID-19 affected staff & families

HCL Tech offers Rs 30-lakh insurance cover to employees for COVID-19 IT Major, HCL Technologies has announced to offer a Rs 30-lakh insurance cover and an additional Rs 7-lakh employee deposit insurance cover to employees for COVID-19. In case of any employees’ unfortunate demise from Covid, the families will get the full value of this […]

May 9, 2021

Appointments

Berger Paints appoints Samar Banerjee as Group Head- HR for India operations

Berger Paints appoints Samar Banerjee as Group Head- HR for India operations Samar Banerjee has been appointed as Group Head- HR, Berger Paints India. In this new role, he will be leading the entire gamut of Human resources for India business of the company. Sameer is an HR professional with two decades of multi-industry, multi-domain HR/ER […]

May 8, 2021

C-Suite Move

Tata Motors Commercial Vehicles biz HR Head Rajesh Nair resigns

Tata Motors Commercial Vehicles biz HR Head Rajesh Nair resigns After a long stint of 28 years, Rajesh Nair has resigned from Tata Motors. He was heading business HR for Commercial Vehicles for the Commercial Organisation viz Sales & Marketing, Customer Care and Spare Parts Verticals. Rajesh had joined Tata Motors as a Management Trainee, […]

May 8, 2021

Coronavirus

JK Cement extends support to families of staff who lost life from COVID-19

JK Cement extends support to families of staff who lost life from COVID-19 JK Cement has extended support to the deceased employees’ families who have lost their lives due to 2nd wave of coronavirus. The company said that loss of life cannot be compensated emotionally. The colleagues we lost to COVID-19 will forever remain in our hearts. […]

May 8, 2021