Julie Sweet, CEO, Accenture, revealed mid-August that it plans to lay off five per cent of its global workforce, affecting…
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The state of Karnataka now has its own ‘Skill Connect’ portal, which will help those seeking jobs find suitable employment…
The lockdown that crippled the country’s economy has impacted the passenger transport companies as well. About 20 lakh people working…
Atlas Cycles has admitted that it is unable to carry on manufacturing operations amidst financial limitations. On June 3, therefore,…
With millions of migrant workers roaming around without jobs in Uttar Pradesh, the state government is planning to amend the…
The Indian economy will find it difficult to recover from the slump following the pandemic and the lockdown. Unemployment is…
Ever since the global financial crisis in 2009, the unemployment rate in Singapore has not been this high. The first…
With all bookings for the summer being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, at least two lakh people associated with…
Post the coronavirus outbreak, the country’s export sector has been under threat, with many factories set to face huge losses.…
Close on the heels of the Australian prime minister announcing a string of economic measures to help save the jobs…
A study by the United Nations’ agency, the International Labour Organisation (ILO), reveals that the pandemic-like situation across the globe…
In the month of March, about seven lakh jobs were lost in the US, owing to the coronavirus outbreak. As…
US-based BPO firm, First Credit Services, has laid off 80 of its employees who were working out of its Thane…
According to the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), over 50 per cent of the tourism and hospitality industry may be…
India is facing one of its darkest hours and is caught between the need to contain Covid-19 and stop businesses…
Streaming company, Netflix, has set out to create a $100 million relief fund for the laid-off employees and the affected…
The Central Government plans to provide unemployment benefits to a section of workers in the organised sector, who may lose…
As part of measures to check the spread of coronavirus, Nepal has stopped issuing visas on arrival to tourists, irrespective…
Jasmit Singh, head-enterprise sales, Oyo, posted on LinkedIn to help place co-workers who have been rendered jobless. Following the…
Over half a million direct jobs are expected to be lost in the real estate space in the near future,…
It is reported that 329 mining leases will become invalid by end of March, 2020. As a result, about 2,64,000…
It is not the automobile sector alone that has been witnessing a slump. The textile sector in India is also…
Post lay off of over 400 Uber staff members recently, the Uber alumni network and other tech employees have posted…
On a social-media platform, The Taj Mahal Palace, the hospitality unit of the Tata Group, put up a welcoming message…
Not only has India’s unemployment rate risen (from 5.9 per cent in February last year, to 7.2 per cent in…