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Updated on: Jun 2021
Edelweiss General Insurance rolls out WORK FROM ANYWHERE policy
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Edelweiss General Insurance rolls out WORK FROM ANYWHERE policy

Edelweiss General Insurance Permanent WFA Policy Insurance Tech startup Edelweiss General Insurance (EGI), has announced a policy change for all its employees across India. New policy Work from anywhere (WFA) is a Hybrid work model that aims to empower and enable employees with their choice of workspace while ensuring optimum work productivity. With the introduction […]

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IMF HR Head Kalpana Kochhar to join Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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IMF HR Head Kalpana Kochhar to join Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a merging of the William H. Gates Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation Indian economist Kalpana Kochhar, Head-HR, IMF (International Monetary Fund) will retire next month after serving for over three decades with the organization to join the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She has been with the IMF for three […]

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Leela Palaces Hotels and Resorts ropes in new VP-HR from HDFC ERGO
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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 The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts appoints Gautam Srivastava as Vice President – Corporate HR. In his new role, he will drive and implement the people strategy of the company, as it embraces the next new phase of […]

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Tata Group appoints Anand Shankar as SVP – Group Human Resources
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Tata Group appoints Anand Shankar as SVP – Group Human Resources

Tata Group appoints Anand Shankar as SVP – Group Human Resources & Director TMTC/ Tata Tomorrow University Tata Group appoints Anand Shankar as Senior Vice President – Group Human Resources & Director TMTC (Tata Management Training Center) Tata Tomorrow University, effective from June 1, 2021. Anand is Global expert in Human resource, Future of Work, […]

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Apple asks staff to return to office 03 days a week, effective Sept 2021
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Apple asks staff to return to office 03 days a week, effective Sept 2021

Employees also have the chance to work remotely for up to two weeks a year Apple employees are being asked to return to the office three days a week starting in early September. Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc sent out an email Wednesday informing staff of the change. “For all that we’ve […]

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

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Govt forms panel for fixation of Minimum Wages and National Floor Wages
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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 […]

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Reliance Industries announces COVID-19 bereavement support
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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 […]

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

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

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KKR has acquired Wipro stake in IT Services Co Ensono
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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 […]

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CNSI appoints Shilpa Bidathanapalli as Vice President- Human Resources
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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, […]

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