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About 15 per cent of the company’s total India workforce, of approx. 600, will lose their jobs.

The Shenzhen-based telecoms gear maker, is reportedly laying off about five per cent of its 60,000 strong global workforce.

Five winning startups to secure equity-free funding and opportunity to become a Capgemini partner.

The state labour department has imposed a monthly penalty of Rs 50,000 for five years on the accused after the company’s internal committee failed to act on the complaint.

Last week, the English daily discontinued its business bureau in Delhi and Mumbai and syndicated the same to Mint.

Companies which had not earlier enrolled their employees under the EPF scheme can now do so, against payment of a minimal damage fee of Re 1 per year of default.

Work e-mails post office hours are considered to be a practice that promotes unpaid overtime.

Gopu, an engineering graduate was unit head of ITI’s Bengaluru plant before donning the hat of an HR-head.

As per the new guidelines, the enquiry of such cases must be completed within 30 days and under any circumstances within 90 days from the date of the complaint.

Approaches that will change the way we look at the interventions in terms of cultural relevance, functional expertise and competency building.

The leave management module will help automate the leave process of employees of state government departments and PSUs.

The retirement age may be increased from 58 to 60 years along with providing a 2 percent increase in dearness allowance (DA) for its 2.68 lakh strong employee base.

This initiative by the key Industry association that promotes education, research, training and development for Indian foundry men, will support various allied sectors.

Japan’s labour ministry referred Dentsu and one of its executives to the prosecutors on suspicion of forcing Matsuri Takahashi, to work long hours, which led to her suicide on Christmas Day.

Singh has been instrumental in reviving the fortunes of SpiceJet after taking back the reins in January 2015 and had decided not to take salary till the airline turned profitable.

AccorHotels recently awarded some of its best talent in a ceremony held at the Novotel Goa Shrem Hotel.

The company is apparently looking at controlling costs and revamping its strategies.

The complainant has alleged that Google forces workers to spy on each other through a programme called ’Stopleaks’ that requires them to report the disclosure of confidential information.

The newly imposed rule is a clear indication of creating more job opportunities for its own citizens and encouraging organisations to hire more people from the local population. 

The cash crunch and resulting demand slump have taken a toll on small and medium enterprises, as companies are looking to lay off 25 per cent of their workforce.

The initiative aims to equip three million disabled people with job skills by 2020.

The idea is to stop discrimination on the basis of past salary drawn by the prospect, and the interviewee getting influenced by the same.

These job vacancies will be created through the Rs 36,000-crore project given to the Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL).

Thomsons is a SaaS provider of global employee benefits and employee engagement software. Its platform, Darwin™ for automated employee benefits administration has over 1 million worldwide users.

These former IT employees filed a lawsuit in Florida claiming that the company had discriminated against them by firing them and replacing them with Indians.

The AI-based HR analytics platform agreed to give away 5 per cent equity to the team formed by Ameera Shah, managing director and CEO, Metropolis Healthcare, and Vivek Bhargava, CEO, iProspect.