Tag: COVID-19

Starting January 1, 2022, only fully vaccinated employees will be allowed to return to office in Singapore. According to the Health Ministry of the island,...

Walmart has asked its employees to return to offices from November 8, 2021. The Company, after operating remotely for a large portion of the...

Tech giant Apple has announced that from October 24, it will require its unvaccinated corporate employees to get tested for COVID-19 every time they...

Starting October 30, Russia will be going into a non-working week to control the rapid spread of COVID-19 infections in the country. President Vladimir...

Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, believes that even though vaccination remains the best protection for the population against COVID-19, it should be voluntary and...

Things have started to look up on the economic front, globally, with ‘return to office’ strategies being drawn up and reopening happening across the...

With the president of the US ordering all private-sector companies to get their employees vaccinated or prepare unvaccinated employees to get tested weekly, Whirlpool...

The employees of Reliance Industries, who did not get any increments last year, can look forward to a pay hike of 10 to 12...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced that the Government will pay the provident fund (PF) share of both employers as well as employees for...

Shree Ramkrishna Exports (SRK), a diamond major in India, has vaccinated all its employees with the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and 50...

Making intolerance of any violation of COVID-19 protocols very clear, CNN, the US media firm, has fired three employees who came to work without...

Pfizer, the US-based pharma company has asked all its US employees to get vaccinated for COVID-19 or be ready to get tested for the...

Of the about 10,000 Googlers who applied for permission to work remotely or relocate, 85 per cent received approval. About 55 per cent of...

The stringent lockdown, that was in effect across the nation last year when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the nation with its first wave in...

Employee training and development programmes are crucial to the success of businesses across the world. Since they offer opportunities to the workforce to improve...

Venus Remedies, the research-oriented pharmaceutical company, is going all out to help its COVID-affected employees and their families. It has launched a COVID protection...

Tata AIA Life Insurance’s 'Raksha ka teeka' campaign has tasted success, with 99 per cent of the workforce being vaccinated with at least the...

Britain has announced the lifting of all COVID-19 related restrictions. Starting July 19, people can move about without wearing face masks or maintaining social...

For the second time in about three months, the workers at the Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) halted work to demand pay revision, which has...

Deloitte’s 20,000 employees across Britain now have the choice of working from home or from anywhere in Britain for ever, if they so wish...

Casio India, the consumer electronics brand, held a free vaccination drive for all its employees and their family members to support the Government’s ongoing...

Tanaya Mishra has joined Strides Pharma as the global CHRO and will be leading the HR function for the company globally. Mishra has confirmed...

While most companies are offering financial aid, medical insurance and vaccination to all their employees and their families, TresVista is offering aid to even...

CNH Industrial, a global producer of agricultural and construction equipment in India announced its in-house COVID-19 vaccination drive for its 4,000-strong Indian workforce, including...

Of the 50,000 vacancies announced in the Punjab government in 2021, four per cent quota will be for people with disabilities (PwDs). Social Security,...

Realising that nursing mothers are highly vulnerable and need to be protected from COVID-19 infection, the Labour Ministry recently issued an advisory to all...

Escorts and MG Motor India have announced both healthcare measures and financial aid for employees and their families in these difficult times. As part...

Amazon, which had a 9,500-strong workforce across 50 locations in Italy, will soon expand its team by about 3,000. It plans to hire about...

Colorbar, the Indian beauty brand, organised a three-day vaccination drive in association with Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, for its employees and their dependents. The...

Dr Oetker, a company offers Western pleasure food to India, has announced a series of initiatives to support employees and their families during the...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues unabated, determined leaders and employees of companies big and small, all over India, continue to defy the challenges to...

‘Pandemic’ is a word that combines the Greek words ‘pan’ meaning all and ‘demos’ meaning people. The focus of the word is on the...

Deutsche Bank presently has about 600 senior executives, with only about 24 per cent of them being women. Now, the German lender, is aiming...

The salary of any Tata Steel employee who loses his or her life to COVID will continue to be paid to his or her...

Organisations are increasingly realising the need for their workforce to take breaks to avoid burnout. Today, Hindustan Unilever (HUL) announced that it will celebrate...

Narkuti Deepti, from Hyderabad, has managed to get a job as a software development engineer at Microsoft, in the US. She will be paid...

Each employee at Roche Pharma India will receive a one-time vaccine allowance of Rs 5,000 to cover the vaccination of self and dependents. This...

Mahindra & Mahindra has assured that the family of any employee who loses a battle with COVID-19 will receive salary for the next five...

Realising the severity of the second wave of the pandemic in India, organisations are taking various measures to support their staff and take care...

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India (MBRDI) has launched several initiatives to ensure the health, safety, and holistic wellbeing of its employees as well as...

Banks, considered to be an essential service, were open even during the lockdown — be it in the first wave or second wave of...

Merriam-Webster’s 2020 word of the year was ‘pandemic’. Indeed, COVID-19 has shaped lives and altered workspaces for more than a year now, forcing us...

The Government of Uttar Pradesh has rolled out a new Oxygen Production Promotion Policy 2021, which will not only take care of the paucity...

Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) is offering death insurance up to Rs 7 lakh to the salaried staff and their family members. EPFO is...

COVID-19 has claimed many lives, especially in the second wave. Companies, despite everything, have not been able to save the lives of many of...

Droom, the Indian AI-driven online automobile marketplace, has gone the extra mile to help its employees during these trying times. It has converted its...

Due to surging cases of COVID-19 in the country, commercial vehicle manufacturer, Ashok Leyland, has announced that it will scale down its operations in...

Anuj Aggarwal, a member (HR) and also a former chairman of the Airports Authority of India (AAI), lost his battle with COVID - 19...

Amidst the second COVID-19 wave that is sweeping across the world, US President Joe Biden has urged companies to allow paid leaves to those...

Hero MotoCorp has announced the shutdown of its manufacturing plants. The decision has been taken by the management due to the surge in Covid-19...