Research has shown that larger firms were far better equipped to sustain themselves during the pandemic. After all, they had sufficient capital and were able to invest in digital tools that enabled and facilitated work from home. Smaller firms, on the other hand, with substantially smaller workforces, bore the maximum brunt of the pandemic. With businesses being forced to close down, layoffs had become common. At the smaller firms, the employees were also less productive during the lockdowns. An International Labour Organisation (ILO) report confirms that small organisations with less number of employees saw a decline in the number of…
Author: Kartikay Kashyap
The Supreme Court says that employees cannot apply for change of date of birth at will, as a matter of right. The observation was made when an employee of the Karnataka rural Infrastructure Development Corporation applied for a change of date of birth in his service records 24 years after being appointed. As per the records of TP Nataraja, his date of birth was January 4, 1960, which he wanted changed to January 4, 1961. However, while the Karnataka High Court had directed the Corporation to reconsider Nataraja’s decision pertaining to change of date of birth, the Supreme Court said…
The data released by the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) for the month of August suggests that 14.81 lakh new subscribers were added in the month, as per a statement released by the Labour Ministry. As compared to the data for July, there has been a 12.61 per cent increase in the subscribers with 9.19 lakh subscribers out of 14.81 lakh coming under the social-security ambit for the very first time. The EPFO data shows that this time, several first-time job seekers have entered the Indian workforce. In the age-wise distribution of data, 4.03 lakh subscribers who were added to…