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The hold on recruitments is in response to the prospect of a multi-billion-dollar legal penalty.

Redefining interaction and engagement of co-workers at work, Workplace will now be available to all interested organisations.

The automaker may move employees into early retirement, every year, over the next decade.

With 1700 teams from across 25 cities, the 13th edition witnessed innovative formats.

The company has taken extra care to reward some people, from specific roles/functions, based on their efforts and commendable performance. 

LinkedIn’s new feature, Open Candidates, allows users to secretly declare that they’re available for hire.

The programme is offered to executives with at least three years of work experience.

The programme was launched in 2014 in 11 premier B-Schools to engage with young minds and raise awareness about the brand.

Adoption leave of 12 weeks and paternity leave of one week are the new additions besides the 26 weeks of maternity leave.

These job cuts— a part of an annual cost trimming plan —will account for a small portion of its total Asia corporate and investment banking staff.

In line with its business expansion plans, the company is looking to hire 5,000 people in the country in 2016 and will add another 2,500 in the rest of the world.

The new hiring drive combines gaming with video interviews to reduce time and to control unconscious bias in the selection process.

The platform combines industry-leading content from Lynda.com with LinkedIn’s professional data and network.

Government is looking to overhaul labour laws, to create new jobs by making it easier to hire and fire.

Low on cost, low on attrition and high on talent is taking jobs to smaller towns. 

The new ad-like campaign with a playful, personal touch presents Heineken as the company and not just the brand. 

The company is apparently planning to cut 3,000 jobs as part of the cost cutting and manufacturing unit shut-down plan.

About 10 per cent of the staff at each of the factories will lose their jobs to automation.

Cognizant recently allowed its employees in India — in support functions — to work from home as part of a space-management strategy.

Twitter has apparently decided to discontinue its global engineering work at its Bengaluru development centre and is laying off some employees.

A civil lawsuit was filed last week, accusing Samsung and LG of agreeing to avoid poaching each other’s US employees.

Dell Technologies will cut 2,000–3,000 jobs, majorly in the United States.

The tech giant has apparently shut shop on parts of its most ambitious initiatives — the self-driving car.

India’s net employment outlook for the October-December quarter of 2016 stands at 32 per cent, the highest among 43 surveyed nations.

The move is being speculated as a measure to reduce costs by relocating those roles to India.

Taking a step towards developing skills and capabilities in the aviation sector, the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) has recently entered into an agreement with the US–India Aviation Cooperation Programme (ACP).