Tag: covid

With travel restrictions being lifted, not only has Emirates Airlines restored 90 per cent of its flight network, but is looking to hire more...

Future Generali India Insurance (FGII) will pay an ex-gratia of Rs 10 lakh to the next of kin of those associates who have lost...

BlackRock, the multinational investment-management corporation, has announced that it will have more than half of its workforce back in office for at least three...

TH Clements and Son, a British firm that supplies fresh vegetables and fruits to supermarkets, is paying very attractive salaries to workers keen to...

The hybrid work culture is not as welcome to people as it may appear. A good 70 per cent of the respondents, in a...

OkCredit, the Indian digital bookkeeping startup, is all set to double its 120-strong team over the next seven months. It is on the lookout...

Psychological Capital is defined as ‘an individual’s positive psychological state of development’, which is characterised by high levels of HERO — the four elements...

Facebook has no plans to get its employees to return to office before January 2022. Earlier, in June, the tech company had said it...

TresVista, the consulting and outsourcing support firm, is growing steadily in strength. The firm has reached the 1000-employees’ mark in August 2021. It expects...

Pernord Ricard India has announced that its employees can work from anywhere they wish to. They can choose to work from office or home,...

The dearness allowance (DA) and dearness relief (DR) for Central government staff has been restored, and increased the same from 17 to 28 per...

Droom, an e-commerce platform for sale and purchase of cars, has resumed work from office. The Company has over 250 employees who are all...

Kellogg South Asia has launched its Employee Value Proposition (EVP) with an overarching EVP statement, ‘NOURISH YOUR GRRREAT’, promising to help its employees realise...

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...

Organisations across industries are slowly but surely experiencing the need for employee skilling, not only to meet the needs of the ‘new normal’ but...

While salary delays have been common amidst the pandemic, there is still hope in some sectors. Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) has failed to pay...

IT and consulting services giant, Accenture, has registered a 17 per cent attrition rate in the third quarter of the financial year 2021. Although...

Tata Motors will issue performance shares to its employees and the staff of its subsidiaries as part of a long-term incentive scheme. These performance...

Vedanta, the diversified natural resources company, has announced that in case an employee or business partner loses his/her life to COVID, the surviving family...

Employees of the Central government can avail 15 days of special casual leave (SCL) if any of their dependents or parents test positive for...

Uber is on the lookout for sharp engineering talent in India that can help the Company come up with solutions for its mobility and...

Like many other corporates, Piaggio Vehicles (PVPL) has also taken several measures to provide security to its employees amidst these challenging times. Not only...

Tata Consultancy Services is reportedly preparing to bring back about 25 per cent of its workforce to office. According to an ET report, the...

Reliance Industries (RIL) has announced that it will pay five years’ salary to the family of those employees who have lost their lives to...

While the employment scenario in 2021 and 2022 will witness a rebound, it will not be enough to close the gap in employment brought...

Japan is facing a spike in unemployment rate with lesser jobs being available. From 2.6 per cent in March, the country’s jobless rate went...

Ministry of Labour and Employment has introduced more benefits for its employees via schemes run by the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) and the...

A branch of the Punjab National Bank in Bokaro was witness to a unique drama wherein a manager, Arvind Kumar, who was battling COVID,...

The spouses and immediate dependents of the teachers as well as non-teaching staff of universities and government higher educational institutions in Indore —who lost...

The workers at Renault-Nissan’s car plant in Tamil Nadu have refused to resume work and have gone on a strike as the employee union,...

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

Hero MotoCorp, which had temporarily suspended operations at its plants, has resumed operations at three of its plants in a staggered manner, with effect...

Amidst the pandemic, Tech Mahindra has taken another step towards the well-being of its employees. The IT firm has appointed Meghna Hareendran as its...

India Inc. is putting its best foot forward to help distressed employees amidst the raging pandemic. Tech Mahindra has launched a covid care centre...

Reeling under the effects of the raging second wave of the pandemic, the healthcare system in India has almost collapsed. With shortage of beds...

OYO, the hospitality company, will make the self-reported COVID vaccination status of all the employees of its partner hotels available on its app. The...

Amazon is organising on-site vaccination drives under the supervision of licensed healthcare providers in Delhi. With the aim of ensuring the health and safety...

The employees of Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL), Kota, have sought that the Centre categorise them under ‘frontline warriors’ as they too have been working...

India Yamaha Motor (IYM) is going to suspend production at two of its two-wheeler plants in the country, from May 15-31. Amidst the rising...

Polycab, an Indian electrical equipment manufacturing firm, has appointed Rajesh Nair, former head-HR, Tata Motors, as the new president & CHRO. This is the...

Amidst the second wave of the pandemic, governments across the states are acknowledging the contribution of the healthcare staff and offering them incentives. The...

With about 1,600 employees infected by the coronavirus till date, and some even having lost their lives to it, HCL Technologies has stepped up...

Mali Mahalingam, a senior HR leader and former VP-HR at IBM India, has passed away on May 6. He had been battling COVID for...

Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M) will prepone its schedule for maintenance shutdown of its plants amidst the COVID situation, and the rising number of cases...

Uttar Pradesh government has announced 25 per cent additional salary or honorarium for doctors and nurses on COVID duty at government hospitals across the...

Borosil and Borosil Renewables have gone out of their way to announce an extraordinary compensation for the families of those employees who lose their...

Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has hit upon a unique way to motivate its employees and also boost their immune system. It has arranged for...

Tata Steel's Jamshedpur plant will move to a 12-hour shift from the existing 8-hour starting later this month to contain the spread of COVID-19....

The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) and hospitality major, OYO, have come together to create an online certification course on...

Although the month of June had been recording a rapid fall in the unemployment rate, it recently witnessed a marginal increase in the same...