Grofers had revoked the joining of 67 fresh hires, an act that has landed it in a soup with the revoked students seeking legal help against the company.

In addition to 40,000 workmen, the mining giant will also recruit management executives, from premier institutes.

Bring Your Own Device offers some interesting benefits to employers and employees both, yet a lot of organisations are giving up on this idea

In the rat race to appear technologically advanced, are HR professionals forgetting something that’s vital to their existence?

It also bans employers from asking jobseekers their past pay.

The issue of gender pay gap has been persistent and has a tendency to keep growing with career progression.

Reverse mentoring can facilitate multi-generational co-existence.

In June, the government raised the retirement age of doctors to 65 years. Doctors anyway continue to practice till the last leg of their life but from government’s perspective, it wanted to retain the talent pool in Central Health Service. It’s a growing concern for the government as more than 28 per cent of the central government employees are above 50 years of age. This implies that not only the government will lose experienced high- level personnel but it will even entail unquantifiable costs as new recruits will require training and on-the-job skills.

If professionals such as doctors, lawyers and CAs, can continue to work for post 60, then why can’t other professionals be it an engineer, bureaucrat or a clerk do so. The official retirement age was fixed at a certain 58 years or 60 years because then the life expectancy was low. Now with better medical facilities, people above 60 are quite active and healthy. HRKatha tries to find a rationale.

The skilling organisation is looking to hire across various verticals and hierarchies including faculty members, business development managers and HRM operation executives.

The contest this year is about bringing a positive change to society, through the three themes: detecting fraud and preventing business malpractice; creating an inclusive digital India; and empowering women.

Akkara moves in from Nielsen where he was executive director, human resources-India & South Asia.

The Association had demanded a solution to the manpower shortage at supervisory levels, and introduction of parity in pay.

‘D-Change’— one of the largest digital and joint employee-volunteer programmes— will support education and learning, women’s empowerment and rural skills development in the country.

It isn’t always a smooth sail to the top. Subhankar RoyChowdhury, global head-HR strategy, M&A and analytics at Lenovo, had to make wise choices and constantly reinvent himself and acquire new skills to stay relevant. He shares his journey with HRKatha.

While Microsoft wishes to focus on the phone hardware business, Flipkart states the need to do away with underperformers.

Bector joins from Cipla where he was the chief talent officer and head corporate HR.

According to the HSBC Global Report, 50 per cent of the expected 24 million jobs, to be created in India in the next decade, may come from the e-commerce sector.

The airline will contribute the initial down payment for luxury cars worth up to Rs 45 lakh for its pilots.

These jobs would cover the developing, building and selling of the battery-powered Mission E.

The survey is based on the FTE headcount of firms with IT-BPM operations in India, as reported to NASSCOM.

In 2016, the total number of banking jobs is expected to grow by 20–25 per cent and there will be around three million new banking jobs in 2017. 

The premier flight carrier plans to add approx. hundred aircrafts, 500 pilots and over 1,500 cabin crew in the coming few years.

The course will be co-designed and integrated into the five-year MBA (Tech.) programme at MPSTME, the Technology Management School of NMIMS.

Organisations follow a structured way of learning, be it seminars or employee gatherings. While we are in no way discounting these traditional methods of learning, the impact of social learning is immense. 

The event will offer a unique opportunity to the participating students to solve real-world business and human challenges with innovative and game-changing ideas.

So what, if you are fired? Don’t fret. This is the best time to explore other opportunities or even alternative careers.