A Bengaluru employee’s claim of being forced to resign weeks after relocating has ignited online discussion about nepotism in small companies. The worker shared on Reddit that they secured the role after months of unemployment and moved from their hometown to Bengaluru at personal expense, hoping for stability. Shortly after joining, they realised it was a family-run firm. About two weeks later, the owner’s son came on board and began handling nearly identical responsibilities. The employee was then asked to submit his resignation. “Terminated from job due to nepotism. Don’t know what to do,” the post read going to say,…
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The Andhra Pradesh government has initiated the process of allocating employees across its 28 reorganised districts following approval from the President of India for the district reorganisation. The move is aimed at strengthening administrative functioning in the newly-created districts, many of which have been operating with temporary staffing arrangements since their formation. The state first reorganised its administrative map in April 2022 by creating 13 new districts, increasing the total from 13 to 26. In 2025, the TDP-led NDA government added two more districts—Markapuram and Polavaram—taking the total number of districts to 28. Following the Centre’s approval, the state government…
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has upheld the priority payment of provident fund (PF) and gratuity dues to former employees of Jet Airways, dismissing an appeal filed by the State Bank of India (SBI). The ruling offers significant relief to hundreds of ex-employees as the defunct airline continues to undergo liquidation. With the decision, the appellate tribunal has reaffirmed an earlier order of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), which held that statutory dues such as provident fund and gratuity are not part of the liquidation estate under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC). This means these payments…
Redcliffe Labs has appointed Kshitiz Singh as chief business officer – inorganic growth, strengthening its focus on scaling through acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and network integration across India. Singh will be responsible for defining and executing the company’s mergers and acquisitions strategy, developing alliance ecosystems, and ensuring smooth integration of acquired regional diagnostic businesses. His role also includes identifying high-growth opportunities and expanding Redcliffe Labs’ operating platform to deepen its presence in tier-2 and tier-3 markets. With over 26 years of leadership experience across diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and consumer businesses, Singh has a strong background in scaling operations, driving commercial strategy,…
The Telangana government has announced that starting with salaries and pensions for May 2026, payable in June, 1.5 per cent of the basic pay or basic pension of state employees and pensioners will be deducted to fund the new Employee Health Care Trust (EHCT). The state will contribute an equal matching amount to the trust, which will support the Employees Health Scheme (EHS). Chief Secretary K Ramakrishna Rao issued orders directing department heads, district collectors, and drawing and disbursing officers to ensure the deductions are made and credited to the designated health scheme fund. The contributions will be recorded under…
Shruti Gupta has been promoted to associate vice president (AVP), head of employee experience and services at Airtel. She brings over 9 years of diverse HR experience to her new role. With an MBA in HR from Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, she began her career as a management trainee in HR at KPMG India in 2014, where she worked on campus branding and hiring process benchmarking. Her career graph shows a steady climb through core HR functions. She joined Aircel in 2015 as a management trainee in HR in Kolkata, moving up to assistant manager – talent acquisition…
Jindal Stainless has named Kunjal Mehta its new chief financial officer (CFO), effective from 25 June, after receiving the board approval in Delhi. A chartered accountant and cost accountant with 25+ years of experience, Mehta moves from Adani Energy Solutions, where he was CFO. His career spans senior finance roles at Adani Electricity Mumbai, Adani Ports & SEZ, and Essar Steel, with expertise in corporate finance, treasury, fundraising, and large-scale business transformation. As CFO, Mehta will be in charge of treasury, capital management, financial planning and analysis, investor relations, risk management, and strategic initiatives. Abhyuday Jindal, MD, Jindal Stainless…
Ishan Technologies has appointed Saibal Roy as the chief operating officer (COO), a move aimed at bolstering leadership as the pan-India ICT and digital infrastructure firm expands its footprint and sharpens operational focus. Roy brings over 30 years of experience across India’s telecom and enterprise-technology sector. He spent nearly 14 years at Bharti Airtel, leading government, enterprise, and carrier wholesale businesses to consistent growth. Earlier, he was India vertical head for manufacturing, retail and distribution at ServiceNow India. His career also includes senior roles at Tata Communications, HFCL and Tulip Telecom, giving him broad expertise in connectivity, digital transformation, and…
British American Tobacco (BAT), the maker of Lucky Strike and Dunhill, has announced plans to reduce its workforce by about 20 per cent as part of a major cost-cutting programme. The company will cut around 5,500 jobs directly and move another 3,500 roles to third-party firms such as Accenture, affecting about 9,000 employees in total. The restructuring does not include the US, which is BAT’s largest market. The overhaul is expected to deliver £600 million in annual savings by 2028, with £500 million targeted by 2027. The reason for this move is that BAT is facing declining sales in traditional…
Malaysia will introduce a new hybrid work policy for its public sector from August 1, 2026, allowing eligible civil servants to work remotely for up to two days a week. The move marks a significant step in the country’s efforts to modernise public service operations while offering greater workplace flexibility. The decision was approved by the Cabinet on June 26, making the Hybrid Working Day (HBH) arrangement a permanent feature of the public service. Under the new framework, employees who meet the eligibility criteria may work from home or another location approved by their department head for two days each…
ZOOM Communications has appointed Seema Bangia as its chief people officer (CPO), bringing on board a seasoned HR leader with more than 30 years of experience across aerospace and defence, manufacturing, FMCG, telecom, consumer, and consulting sectors. In her new role, Bangia will spearhead the company’s people strategy, focusing on leadership hiring and development, organisational effectiveness, performance management, ethics, and governance while aligning HR initiatives with business objectives. Prior to joining ZOOM Communications, Bangia worked as an HR business leader, leadership coach and organisation-development advisor at Leading Edge-People Consulting, for over a year (February 2025–June 2026). In this advisory role,…
A new study has reinforced the growing concern over prolonged sitting in workplaces, suggesting that short, regular movement breaks can significantly improve employee health without affecting productivity. Published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM), the research identified a five-minute walk every hour as the most practical and effective way to reduce the adverse effects of sitting for extended periods. The study found that employees who took five-minute walking breaks every hour experienced better physical health outcomes while maintaining, and in some cases improving, their work performance. Researchers also observed lower levels of cognitive fatigue and higher daily engagement…
Meta is introducing a series of workplace measures aimed at rebuilding employee morale after months of organisational restructuring, layoffs and AI-driven role changes reportedly left many employees dissatisfied. According to reports, Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s chief technology officer, acknowledged during an internal meeting earlier this month that employee morale is among the lowest the company has experienced in recent years. He reportedly described the current mood as one of the toughest periods for the organisation since the Cambridge Analytica crisis, reflecting growing concerns over trust, career stability and workplace culture. The decline in morale follows significant workforce changes. Meta recently reduced…
Graphite India has appointed Dhaval Morparia as senior vice president & chief human resources officer (CHRO), strengthening its leadership team. Morparia, in his new role, will lead the company’s people strategy, with a focus on talent management, leadership development, organisational effectiveness, workforce planning, and building a high-performance culture aligned with Graphite India’s long-term growth plans. Morparia joins Graphite India from Livguard Drivetrain, where he served as head HR for over three years (February 2023–June 2026). Heading HR, industrial relations, and compliance for the electric vehicle component manufacturing business, he partnered closely with the CEO to integrate multiple acquired businesses and…
Volkswagen is reportedly preparing for one of the biggest restructuring exercises in its history, with plans to eliminate up to 1,00,000 jobs and shut down four manufacturing facilities in Germany as the automaker responds to mounting competitive and financial pressures. According to reports, the proposal, led by Oliver Blume, CEO, would more than double the scale of an earlier restructuring plan that involved around 50,000 job cuts. If implemented, the move would affect nearly one in six employees across Volkswagen’s global workforce of more than 6,57,000 people, making it one of Europe’s largest industrial workforce reductions in recent decades. The…
Signify, the global lighting company, known for smart, connected LED lighting systems, software and services, has elevated Irani Srivastava Roy to head of HR – Greater India & emerging markets. Roy had been serving as chief human resources officer at the company since 2022. An alumna of IMI Delhi, Irani Srivastava Roy began her career in the hospitality space. She served as manager at Indian Hotels, Taj Hotels for two years before moving to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as consultant, in 2001. From 2002 to 2006, she served as regional HR head-wholesale and non retail business at HDFC Bank, working out of…
Koel Bakkshi has taken on the role of head of human resources at at BSA Crescent Institute of Science and Technology. She has moved from Vikrant University, Gwalior where she was deputy director-human resources and public relations. Bakkshi began her professional journey with Indiabulls Group as a human resources business partner, in October of 2009. Over two and a half years later, she joined IIPM in a similar capacity. The next three years and four months saw her analysing trends and metrics in partnership with the HR group to develop solutions, programmes and policies. She also maintained in-depth knowledge of…
US grocery and retail technology company Hy-Vee has abruptly closed its India engineering centre, cutting around 150 jobs in a late-night Microsoft Teams call. The layoffs, part of a wider restructuring effort, came without prior notice, leaving employees stunned. According to accounts shared online, the entire engineering team was informed at 9 p.m. that their roles were being eliminated. Many had joined the company less than two years ago, some starting as interns before moving into full-time roles. Despite their tenure, workers reportedly did not receive any details of compensation package at the time, describing the experience as one of…
A former Amazon employee has filed a lawsuit in a US federal court, alleging that the company retaliated against him after he raised concerns about discrimination in the workplace. The case, filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Tennessee on 22 June, accuses Amazon of reopening a previously- closed internal investigation and using it as grounds for his dismissal. The plaintiff, Matthew Vaughn, who has represented himself in the filing, worked at Amazon’s MEM5 fulfilment centre in Memphis for nearly five years after joining the company in 2019. Amazon has not yet filed its response to…
Cisco Systems is set to eliminate 471 jobs across three California locations, according to fresh Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filings submitted to the state. The layoffs are scheduled to take effect on 13 July and represent one of the largest workforce reductions disclosed in the latest round of Bay Area WARN notices. The job cuts will be spread across the company’s offices in San Jose, Milpitas and San Francisco. The filings show that 236 employees will be laid off at Cisco’s San Jose campus, followed by 154 employees in Milpitas and 81 employees in its San Francisco office.…
General Motors (GM) has expanded the use of collaborative robots, or cobots, at its Factory Zero electric vehicle plant in Michigan as part of its manufacturing modernisation strategy. The move comes alongside workforce reductions at the facility, where reports indicate that more than 1,000 employees have been affected. Factory Zero is one of GM’s flagship electric vehicle plants and has been at the centre of the company’s efforts to adopt advanced manufacturing technologies. Around 50 cobots have now been introduced to assist employees with repetitive assembly-line tasks, including fitting vehicle body panels and supporting other production processes. According to GM,…
Godrej Capital has expanded its efforts to build an inclusive talent pipeline with BeYou, its affirmative internship programme for LGBTQIA+ professionals. Announced during Pride Month, the initiative is designed to create career opportunities across business, customer-facing and support functions while enabling long-term career growth within the organisation. The six-month internship programme offers participants hands-on experience, exposure to live business projects and opportunities to transition into permanent roles. Since its launch, BeYou has served as a key hiring channel for the company, with half of its interns securing full-time positions. The financial services arm of the Godrej Industries Group is also…
The 8th Pay Commission has completed its latest round of stakeholder consultations in Lucknow and will continue the exercise with meetings in Bhubaneswar and Kolkata in July as it gathers feedback for its recommendations on pay, pensions and service conditions. The Commission is currently in the consultation phase and has not announced any decision on salary revisions, the fitment factor or pension changes. Instead, it is seeking inputs from employee unions, pensioner associations and other stakeholders before finalising its report. The ongoing discussions are aimed at making the consultation process more inclusive by providing a wider platform for government employees…
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup, DeepSeek is preparing to significantly expand its workforce as it scales operations following a major fundraising round. The Hangzhou-based company has announced plans to at least double the size of every department, with recruitment focused primarily on technical and engineering roles. The hiring push is part of its broader strategy to strengthen research and product development as competition intensifies in the global AI industry. The expansion comes as DeepSeek nears the completion of a funding round worth approximately 50 billion yuan (around $7 billion), one of the largest startup fundraises in China. The fresh capital…
AI-powered supply-chain technology company 1Buy.AI has appointed Subhankar Ghose as senior vice president–HR, reinforcing its leadership team as it scales its business and expands its AI-led procurement platform. In his new role, Ghose will spearhead the company’s people strategy, talent acquisition, leadership development, organisational culture, workforce planning, and HR-transformation initiatives to support the next phase of growth. An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Ghose brings more than 21 years of human resources leadership experience across fintech, technology, media, financial services, insurance, and education. Over the course of his career, he has built expertise in talent management, compensation…
Ashish Kumar Singh has resigned as chief human resources officer of Meesho, ending a close to six-year stint at the e-commerce company. The move was disclosed by Meesho in a stock exchange filing on 25 June, 2026. Singh came on board in December 2020 and led the firm’s people and talent charter during a period of rapid scale-up, organisational redesigns, and its eventual move to the public markets. Addressing employees, Vidit Aatrey, co-founder and CEO, Meesho, reportedly noted that Singh built Meesho’s HR team from zero, navigating hyper-growth, the public listing, and all the rough patches. Much of the company’s…