Tag: Canada
Min.salary Rs 43 lakh for foreign service officers in Canada
Those keen to work as foreign service officers with the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) may apply before 30 June, 2023. The job...
New measures for foreign visitors in Canada seeking work permits
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has announced that foreign visitors to Canada who have a job offer can easily apply for and receive...
Canada’s unemployment rate is 5%; 1.5 lakh jobs created in Jan.
While experts had predicted that Canada unemployment rate will go up to 5.1 per cent, the country’s economy has done better than expected. It...
Which countries pay their truck drivers the most?
These are the top 10 nations that pay its drivers the highest wages. Every nation needs people in the trucking industry. Trucks can deliver...
International students in Canada can work over 20 hours a week...
Till 31 December 2023, international students in Canada will be allowed to take up work outside their campuses for over 20 hours a week....
LTTS opens engineering R&D Centre in Toronto, to hire 100...
L&T Technology Services , the global pure-play engineering services company and a listed subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro, is all set to launch its...
GoFloaters raises seed fund from Loyal VC
Gofloaters, the hybrid workplace platform has managed to raise seed funding from Canada-based venture fund, Loyal VC. The funding amount has yet to be...
Canada enhances the Temporary Foreign Workers Programme
Henceforth, all employers will have to provide temporary foreign workers all the information pertaining to their rights in Canada. This is part of the...
Vacancies rise in Canada; 21,000 jobs added in September
The number of vacancies in Canada has gone up. This is not because new jobs have been created, but because about 20,000 people have...
Infosys launches digital centre, to create 1,000 jobs in Calgary
Over the next two years, Infosys plans to create 1,000 jobs in Calgary, Canada. This is double the number the Company had originally promised....
32,000 jobs added, vacancies in Canadian healthcare, social assistance sectors rising
Canada has more jobs on offer now, with about 32,200 vacancies waiting to be filled. As per statistics in the May-June period vacancies rose...
Over a million jobs available for the taking in Canada
Canada’s unemployment rate has fallen to 5.1 per cent and there are more jobs on offer that in the past. In fact, the ratio...
Colleagues stand up for employee fired for being late
An employee who arrived 20 minutes late for work, for the very first time in seven years, has received immense support from his colleagues.
When...
Oracle starts laying off employees in the US
Oracle Corp. has reportedly begun the process of laying off employees in the US, as a part of a cost cutting and restructuring exercise....
Canadian government invites online applications for HR professionals
The recruitment firm, Natural Resources Canada has advertised inviting online applications for the post of human resources assistants, for its corporate management and services...
Mphasis to create 1,000 jobs for techies in Alberta, Canada
By end of 2022, Mphasis hopes to hire 300 people for its new delivery centre at Calgary, Alberta in Canada. The IT services major...
Unemployment rises in the US, Canada posts over 8.74 lakh unfilled...
January 2022 saw about 1.4 million workers joining the labour force in the US. However, the unemployment rate, on the whole, rose a bit...
Apple shuts 8 retail stores in the US and Canada as...
Technology giant, Apple, has decided to shut eight stores in the US and Canada with the surge in the number of COVID-19 cases amongst...
Remote job opps with global firms for Indian CAs
There was a time when owing to the high level of confidentiality involved in accounting firms, the very thought of shifting accounting work offshore...
Employment drops in Australia, but rises in Canada in April
In Australia, companies cut jobs in April, a month after the Australian government’s wage subsidy came to an end. However, unemployment rate also dipped...
Amazon to hire 75,000 workers across Canada and the US
On May 13, Amazon announced that it is going to hire around 75,000 workers across Canada and the US. The Company has also announced...
Fresh layoffs in Canada, unemployment spikes
With restrictions imposed yet again following the second wave of the pandemic, Canada is again experiencing job losses. In January itself, the country lost...
Airlines across the world struggling to survive
Philippine Airlines, which is owned by billionaire Lucio Tan, will slash 2,300 jobs within two months. That means, one-third of its workforce will have...
Unionisation costs staff their jobs
American grocery delivery and pick-up service, Instacart, has fired ten employees who voted in favour of a union. These employees had apparently tried to...
Workforce rehaul at Coca-Cola, 2,200 to be laid off globally
Coca-Cola Company, the American multinational beverage firm, is set to reduce its global workforce by 2,200. In the US itself, it will let go...
IIT Kharagpur ties up with University of Alberta, Canada for JDP
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, has entered into a collaboration with the University of Alberta, Canada, in a bid to ensure a global...
559 job cuts at Microsoft’s Seattle office
Microsoft has recently made headlines for laying off 559 employees from its offices in Bellevue and Redmond, Washington. The announcement was made by the...
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“There will be more hires for new positions, not just attrition hires,” Ranjith Menon
2022 was a volatile year for HR & workforce
I think organisations were struggling post pandemic to meet the customer demand surge across various sectors....
Starbucks workers protest against union-busting efforts
Starbucks employees and labour activists held protests outside the coffee giant's Seattle headquarters on Wednesday, alleging that company executives were trying to undermine unionisation...
Diversity easier to achieve at entry level than at senior level?
Diversity across all levels has become a priority in the corporate world. In fact, it has come to be the most important aspect today....
Twitter staff offered stock grants worth $20 bn
Twitter employees are set to receive stock-based grants worth about $20 billion, as reported by Wall Street Journal. However, this is not even 50...
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EQ, IQ & empathy define the success of a CEO
Q. You spent 16 years at LIC before moving to a corporate role at ICICI Prudential. Now, 22 years on, I am still curious...
“The big change has been that we have moved from jobs to skills,” Amaresh...
Q. How would you define the culture at GE?
A. Having been present in this region since 1902, GE has been around for 120 years....
“Being good to everyone is being unjust to performers,” Mathew Job, CEO, Crompton
Q. In today’s times, what’s more challenging for a CEO like you — profit & business growth, talent & people, diversification, compliance or managing...
