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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.  

The two-year old startup with a search technology that draws on artificial intelligence, has a search index containing profiles of over 400 million jobs.

CheckPoint has been co-created by employees through an internal social media campaign. It has received 75,000 views and 2,000 comments from its 3.8 lakh employees across 170 countries.

The FMCG player has introduced several new initiatives to promote a gender inclusive culture.

Around 2500 college students are expected to benefit from this upskilling exercise, which will be delivered through vocational training providers and governed by the NASSCOM Foundation.

The move is aimed to boost a healthy and productive work environment as well as emotionally uplift the company’s workforce.

The telecom sector will require 41 lakh skilled workers by 2022.

An upfront charge of £1,000 per year of the visa applied for, implies that ISC for a three-year visa would cost £3,000.  As per estimates this would raise over £200 million a year.

The credit for this achievement goes to the company’s robust framework for employee growth, supported by its collaborative culture, competency framework, internal job posting, educational assistance, and focus on internal promotions.

The company will allow all onshore employees to work 20 per cent less at full contractual pay, for up to six months— after they return to work, post childbirth or adoption— apart from 18 weeks of maternity leave and one week of paternity leave.

Branded as CIEL Stars, these franchisees will be located in IT parks, SEZs, industrial estates and places housing many corporate companies. The franchisees will also be extended to tier-II and tier-III cities across India. 

A major part of this investment has gone into creating Accenture Connected Learning, a blend of classroom-based training and a digital learning environment to link its employees to professional content and world-class experts.  

With 55 per cent of Indian companies hiring through employee referrals, this platform is clearly gaining popularity in the market.  

The solution, which comes in a card format, is very similar to the Sodexo coupons.

Around 100 former police personnel have come together to form a new company, Fourth Force, to mitigate fraud and criminal risks.

Employees can now withdraw their provident fund money without employers’ permission.

The game not only allows business leaders to see the immediate impact of the use of Key Principles on their team’s performance and level of engagement, but also improves  their situational judgment as to which key principle to use and when, in challenging situations.