Lockdown: HR News, Trends & Workplace Insights

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Updated on: Jun 2020

Coronavirus

JCB India has laid off permanent employees

Jun 12, 2020

Supreme Court Employers and Employees to Negotiate

The Supreme Court of India today asked employers and employees to negotiate and settle between thems...

Labour Law

Jun 12, 2020

Supreme Court Employers and Employees to Negotiate

Reinvent the way we work to shine amidst the Crisis

Never let a good crisis go to waste Winston Churchill The last few weeks have been surreal. It h...

Culture & Behaviour

Jun 10, 2020

Reinvent the way we work to shine amidst the Crisis

Mental Health Emotions Management in Times of Crisis

For everyone alive right now, COVID - pandemic will be the most defining event of our lives. Time ...

Psychology & NPL

Jun 9, 2020

Mental Health Emotions Management in Times of Crisis

Employee Engagement

Lockdown is no excuse for employee knockdown

Some organizations resolved not to cut salaries or layoff their employees despite the business coming to a grinding halt due to the lockdown. This sets the ground straight for robust people practices in these enterprises. At the hireXP round-table discussion, CHROs—Arpan Anand of CP Plus, Shiv Rawat of DTDC Express, and Amit Sharma of Volvo […]

Jun 4, 2020

Coronavirus

Unlock 1: MHA issued new guidelines of lockdown 05

Lockdown 05: Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued new guidelines to fight COVID-19 and for phased re-opening of areas outside the Containment Zones, on 30th May 2020. The guidelines would come into effect from June 1, 2020 and would be effective till June 30, 2020. The current phase of re-opening, #Unlock1, will have an economic […]

May 31, 2020

Labour Law

Order on full wages withdrawn: Centre informs Supreme Court

The Centre on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that it had withdrawn a contentious March 29 order requiring private employers to pay full wages to their workers during the lockdown. Appearing before a Bench led by Justice Ashok Bhushan in a virtual court hearing via videoconferencing, Attorney-General K.K. Venugopal said the May 17 order of […]

May 27, 2020

Coronavirus

Nokia shuts plant in TN after 42 test positive for Coronavirus

Nokia last week suspended operations at a telecoms gear manufacturing plant in southern India, the company said on Tuesday, after some employees tested positive for Covid-19. Nokia did not disclose how many workers at the plant in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu tested positive, but a source familiar with the matter said they were at least […]

May 27, 2020

Coronavirus

Tata Group top execs to take up to 20% salary cut

Tata Group top execs to take up to 20% salary cut in an effort to conserve cash For the first time in the Tata Group’s history, Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran and Tata Group companies’ chief executive officers (CEOs) will take around a 20 percent compensation-cut in an effort to reduce the cost to tide over […]

May 25, 2020

Coronavirus

An employee at Maruti plant tests positive for Covid-19

An employee at Maruti Suzuki’s Manesar plant has tested positive for COVID-19, according to a company spokesperson. The company is also looking at “a possibility of a second case” of infection at the facility but has ruled out any impact on the business part due to the situation. The country’s largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki India […]

May 24, 2020

Coronavirus

IBM confirms global layoffs, India employees hit with it too

IBM confirmed, it is cutting an unspecified number of jobs, but wouldn’t provide details related to location, departments, or the number of employees involved. The company framed it in terms of replacing people with more needed skills as it tries to regroup under new CEO Arvind Krishna. Several business media sites, including the Wall Street Journal and […]

May 23, 2020

Coronavirus

HCL to pay bonuses, no pay cuts, honour existing offers

IT firm, HCL has emphatically declared that despite the slowdown, and the economic impact of coronavirus, they will pay all promised bonuses all 150,000 employees, will honour the nearly 15,000 job offers already made to freshers, and no salary cuts for any employee. Apparao VV, Chief Human Resources Officer, HCL said that HCL won’t roll […]

May 22, 2020

Coronavirus

Indiabulls asked nearly 2000 employees to resign till 31 May

Indiabulls has asked nearly 2,000 employees to resign from the company. The Company, however, said this was part of the annual attrition cycle and claimed these were not lay-offs The Financial Services Group Indiabulls, On May 15, the group’s Indiabulls Housing Finance asked many of its employees to resign and consider May 31 as their […]

May 22, 2020

Survey & Report

Industry reactions on Rs 20 lakh crore economic package

PM Modi has announced Rs 20 lakh crore economic support package, intended to help the economy tide over the Covid-19 crisis. His strategy for the Aatmanirbhar Bharat was presented by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharama in four tranches. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman detailed the package in five tranches, the last of which was announced on […]

May 19, 2020

Coronavirus

After Zomato, Swiggy Announces 1,100 Layoffs

Food delivery company Swiggy said today that it will lay off 1,100 employees over the next few days, as the coronavirus pandemic hit its core and cloud kitchen businesses. Sriharsha Majety, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, the company said, “Today is one of the saddest days for Swiggy as we have to go through an […]

May 18, 2020

Coronavirus

MHA extends lockdown till 31 May with new guidelines

Centre government extends lockdown till 31 May with new rules and guidelines, States are given more power Centre government has released the guidelines for the fourth phase of lockdown guidelines today. The demands and expectations of states on lockdown extension have been mixed- with some demanding the extension while others are in favour of opening […]

May 17, 2020