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TCS wins the Top Women Award for Corporate Citizenship

TCS wins the Top Women Award for Corporate Citizenship in South Africa Tata Consultancy Services, a ...

Latest news: TCS wins the Top Women Award for Corporate Citizenship - SightsIn Plus

Capgemini collaborates with AWS to extend its Digital Cloud Platform

Capgemini collaborates with AWS to extend its Digital Cloud Platform Capgemini has extended its Digi...

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Adidas may sell the Reebok brand in March 2021

Adidas may sell the Reebok brand in March 2021 German sportswear maker Adidas AG said that it is considering strategic options, including a potential sale, for Reebok, 15 years after it bought the U.S.-focused brand to take on archrival Nike Inc on its home turf. The decision will be announced on March 10, when the […]

Mahindra Group to train additional 5 lakh youth by 2025

Mahindra Group to train additional 5 lakh youth by 2025 Mahindra Group said it plans to train another five lakh youth under its various skill training initiatives over the next five years. The group has already skilled five lakh youth besides creating one lakh jobs as part of these initiatives, which include Mahindra Pride Schools […]

EPFO

EPFO has added 11.55 lakh net subscribers in October 2020

EPFO has added 11.55 lakh net subscribers in the month of October 2020, 56% rise in new enrolments The provisional payroll data of EPFO has been released on 20th December 2020. It reveals that EPFO has added 11.55 lakh net subscribers in the month of October, 2020. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, EPFO has added around […]

Wistron removes India VP after probe finds fault in the wage payment process

Wistron removes India VP after probe finds fault in the wage payment process; Apple places company on probation Apple’s contract manufacturer Wistron on Saturday removed its vice-president Vincent Lee, who was heading operations in India after finding fault in the process of wage payment during its internal investigation. The Taiwanese electronics services major admitted the mistakes at […]

Dec 20, 2020

Industry

Infosys looking to help stakeholders in Vaccine Management Solutions

Infosys looking to help stakeholders in Vaccine Management Solutions According to a Business Standard report, Infosys is gearing up to talk with Indian and foreign government agencies and industry bodies to provide its vaccine management cloud solution that was rolled out last month. “We are supportive of government agencies who would like to leverage our solutions […]

Dec 20, 2020

CHRO Move

Cadila Pharmaceuticals appoints Sameer Nagarajan as Global President- HR

Cadila Pharmaceuticals appoints Sameer Nagarajan as Global President- HR Sameer Nagarajan joins Cadila Pharmaceuticals as Global President- HR, effective 9th December 2020, most recently before joining Cadila, he was working with Dabur International Limited as Executive Vice President, Human Resources in Dubai. Sameer completed an MBA in HR from XLRI Jamshedpur in 1988 after a […]

Dec 20, 2020

Tata Steel to have 20% women officers in the workforce by 2025

Tata Steel named Top Employer for LGBT+ Inclusion, sets a target of having 20% women officers in the workforce by 2025. Tata Steel has been named a Top Employer for LGBT+ inclusion by India Workplace Equality Index (IWEI), the country’s first comprehensive benchmarking study to measure and enable efforts for LGBT+ inclusion. IWEI Top Employers […]

Honda Cars India Closes its Greater Noida Plant

Honda Cars India Closes its Greater Noida Plant According to an ETAuto report, Honda Cars India is closing production at its Greater Noida Plant this month after running it for 23 years. However, the company’s corporate office and R&D department will continue to operate from the same place. Greater Noida facility manufactures Honda City, CR-V, and Civic but […]

Openreach, a division of British telecoms to create 2,500 jobs

Openreach, a division of British telecoms to create 2,500 jobs Openreach, a division of British telecoms giant BT, announced Friday plans for 2,500 new engineering jobs across the UK next year as it upgrades broadband services. Work on connecting households and offices to faster and more reliable broadband will see supply chains create a further […]

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Odisha CM writes to Centre for revision of EPF Pension

Odisha CM writes to Centre for revision of EPF Pension Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Thursday wrote a letter to the Centre seeking revision of Employees’ Pension Scheme-1995 (EPS-95) which will benefit at least 1.62 lakh people in the state. A copy of the letter was released to the media. The beneficiaries of the Employees’ […]

Coca-Cola to cut 2,200 jobs globally

Coca-Cola to cut 2,200 jobs globally According to ABC News, Coca-Cola is cutting approximately 2,200 jobs globally as part of a company reorganization plan. Some 1,200 of those job cuts will be in the U.S., and about 500 of them will be in the Atlanta area, where the company is headquartered, according to Scott Leith, […]

Google to offer free weekly COVID-19 tests to all US employees

Google to offer free weekly COVID-19 tests to all US employees Google is offering free weekly Covid-19 tests to 90,000 employees in the US. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, every US Google employee (and its subsidiaries, including YouTube) will be eligible to sign up for a free at-home test. Google is paying its partner, […]