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As per the ID Act, any person employed by any industry to do manual, skilled, unskilled, technical, operational, clerical or supervisory work for hire or reward, is a ‘workman’.

Studies reveal that women are forced to give up their careers during maternity, and the only way to retain talent is to offer flexibility

The new policy will come into effect from May 15, 2016 and will benefit over 1200 employees working in 83 stores in India.

The hotel now follows evolved HR practices with relaxed grooming guidelines, unheard in the hospitality sector.

The HR Gamification company will use the investment for international expansion, product innovation and global partnerships.

The woman petitioner was absent from work at her own whims and fancies, without heeding the consequences, despite sufficient opportunity being given to her to improve.

The process will be executed over the next 60 days with some actions spanning into 2017. 

The app’s feedback and developmental approach to performance management leads to higher employee engagement and a performance-driven culture.

The company’s 4,000 employees serve approx. 20,000 clients, including small businesses and large corporations and associations in North America.

The platform will help organisations increase productivity by 60 per cent.

Peer is modelled around what works in other feedback systems, using the context of meetings to prompt for timely, continuous feedback.

Sapient India new recruitment campaign seeks to buck clichéd recruitment strategies

The fund will be financed by employees through voluntary contributions.

Companies such as HSBC, for example, warned on March 2 a shift of 1000 jobs from London to Paris if Britain exits the EU.

The bank is in the process of building a team of young meritorious individuals, who like to challenge the status quo and bring in new ideas, innovation and approaches.

Wipro has been on the list consistently since 2012. Tata Steel has also won for the fifth time but not in a row, as it was not part of the list in 2014.

The telecom company has tried to address a serious issue with a change in policy, which will ensure that women employees will get the same role or an equivalent one once she returns from her 22 weeks of maternity leave.

On an average, women comprise 3 per cent of the telecom workforce. However, at Telenor, the share of women employees has gone up to 11 per cent.

The career-transition programme for women professionals who have taken a six-month break or more, provides an opportunity to work on live projects at flexible timings.

India’s newest carrier has launched a social media campaign, #WomenWhoMakeUsFly.

There have been several media reports since the evening of March 2, 2016 on the same. One tech website has reported that the retrenchment could be as big as one-third of the total workforce.

GOI has proposed to bring EPF at par with NPS, which has a tax rebate on 40 per cent of the corpus while the remaining 60 per cent is taxable.

The job portal plans to invest in creating HR on the cloud and exploring new markets pan-India.

The company performed exceptionally well across nine core areas of human resources: talent strategy, workforce planning, onboarding, learning and development, performance management, leadership development, career and succession management, compensation and benefits, and organizational culture.

HRforYou simplifies complex HR solutions into vanilla offerings, to enable consumers to choose solutions appropriate to their needs.

Business chamber, ASSOCHAM, has proposed that the Ministry of Finance offer increased tax exemptions to encourage more women to join the workforce.