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Updated on: Apr 2020
TCS not to lay off employees, freezes salary hikes
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TCS not to lay off employees, freezes salary hikes

MUMBAI:Largest Indian software exporter TCS on Thursday said it will not retrench any of its nearly 4.5 lakh employees, but has decided not to give any salary hikes this year. The Tata group company said it will honour each of its commitments on new hires by taking all the 40,000 people who have been given offers […]

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Accenture-built platform connects firms with laid-off people
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Accenture-built platform connects firms with laid-off people

Accenture and Verizon launches People + Work, B2B platform to match laid-off workers with open positions As unemployment surpasses record highs due to COVID-19, a group of leading companies from multiple industries has formed People + Work Connect, an employer-to-employer initiative that brings together companies laying off or furloughing people with those companies in urgent […]

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Vistara again announces compulsory leave without pay for senior employees
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Vistara again announces compulsory leave without pay for senior employees

Vistara CEO Leslie Thng on Wednesday announced that senior employees will be going on compulsory leave without pay for up to three days between April 15 and April 30 as a measure to further conserve the airline’s cash flow amid the lockdown to combat the coronavirus threat. On March 27, the airline had also introduced […]

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LD-02: List of activities that will be allowed from 20th April
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LD-02: List of activities that will be allowed from 20th April

The Ministry of Home Affairs in its revised lockdown guidelines allowed several services to remain operational from April 20. The MHA said in its directive ‘to mitigate hardship to the public‘, select additional activities have been allowed which will come into effect from 20 April 2020. These limited exemptions will be operationalized by States, UTs, district administrations based […]

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EPFO extends challan filing date for employers
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EPFO extends challan filing date for employers

Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation has extended the date of filing Electronic Challan Cum Return (ECR) for wage month March 2020 extended up to 15.05.2020 from 15.04.2020, The EPFO also decided to waive off any interest liability and penalty in this extended period. This would give some relief to employers stuck with closed establishments following a nationwide […]

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Capgemini announces increments for 84,000 employees
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Capgemini announces increments for 84,000 employees

Capgemini India announces the single-digit salary hike to 70 percent of its staff or 84000 employees in India, effective April 1, 2020. The company has 1.2 lakh employees in India, of which 70% or 84,000 employees will be benefitted from this decision. The rest of the employees of Capgemini India will get their increments in […]

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ESIC Further Extends Period for Filing ESI Contribution
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ESIC Further Extends Period for Filing ESI Contribution

The country is dealing with a very challenging situation due to COVID-19 Pandemic. Many establishments are temporarily closed and workers are unable to work. In line with the relief measures being extended by Government to business entities and workers, Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) has undertaken following relief measures for its stakeholders specially Employers and […]

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Here’re companies hiring right now in India
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Here’re companies hiring right now in India

According to a recent survey by Naukri JobSpeak, the job market across cities registered a drop in hiring activity, the index revealed that the decline was led by metros wherein- Delhi declined by 26 percent Mumbai declined by 25 percent Chennai declined by 24 percent Hyderabad declined by 18 percent The Naukri JobSpeak is a […]

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Philips names Vishpala Reddy as new Head- HR
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Philips names Vishpala Reddy as new Head- HR

According to ET Report, Philips has hired Vishpala Reddy as its new Head- Human Resources for the Indian subcontinent, replacing Armaan Seth who has recently joined Syngenta. She is likely to join Philips next month. With almost 20 years of experience in HR, currently, Vishpala leads Human Resources for Uber across the Asia Pacific mega-region […]

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TCS, Cognizant, HUL to honour job offers made to campus hires
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TCS, Cognizant, HUL to honour job offers made to campus hires

Amidst the Coronavirus Pandemic, a lot of companies are doling out pink slips to employees or cutting salaries, there are a select few that are keeping their promises to new campus hires even in difficult times. According to a Times of India report, The big companies as TCS, Google, Wipro, Capgemini, Hindustan Unilever (HUL), Godrej, Pepsi-Co, Biocon, […]

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Grofers is looking at hiring 5,000 employees
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Grofers is looking at hiring 5,000 employees

Online grocery platform Grofers is looking at hiring 5,000 employees to ramp up its capacity to meet the spike in orders amid the nationwide lockdown. The company has also partnered with resident welfare associations (RWAs) of over 100 societies across metros to make essentials available to a larger number of people amid the 21-day lockdown […]

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Twitter: HR Veterans on COVID-19 Pandemic
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Twitter: HR Veterans on COVID-19 Pandemic

Coronavirus global pandemic has affected every workplace, in one way or another. The employers have closed their doors temporarily due to lockdown and asked their employees to work from home, Companies have given extra paid or special paid leave or unpaid leave to employees with health concerns. While the worst of the coronavirus outbreak will […]

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