Tag: Fired
200 artisans in Telangana power utility fired for participating in strike
Telangana power utility management terminated 200 artisans from their service on 25 April, 2023 after warning employees to end their strike and resume work....
Musk fires dozens of sales & engineering staff at Twitter
Recent reports have stated that Twitter has undergone yet another round of layoffs. The CEO, Elon Musk, has reportedly let go of dozens of...
Fired Googler to launch own venture within notice period
At least one Googler has not allowed the recent layoff at Google affect him. In fact, he has used the opportunity to launch his...
Wells Fargo fires VP for peeing on woman on Air India...
Shankar Mishra, the vice president of Wells Fargo, India, was fired following his misconduct aboard an Air India flight.
On 26 November, 2022,Shankar Mishra was...
This restaurant manager gets fired for unpleasant memo to staff
An unpleasant memo shot off by a manager of a popular Italian restaurant chain to his employees has landed him in a soup. The...
Amazon India summoned by Labour Ministry over unethical layoffs
The Union Labour Ministry has reportedly sent a notice to Amazon India seeking an explanation with regard to the retrenchment of employees without serving...
Twitter firings over, Musk now actively hiring talent, seeking referrals
After making headlines for the controversial firing of employees, Twitter seems to be hiring actively again.
Over the past one month, about two-thirds of the...
60 days’ notice a challenge for Indian Twitter staff in the...
All H1B visa holders employed with Twitter, and who have been laid off will need to find another job within two months to be...
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...
US employee fired for sharing pay hike info on TikTok
Lexi Larson who is based out of Denver in the US had recently joined a tech company. She was hired after receiving a commendable...
Sacked employee sues Tesla for ‘unprofessionalism’
A former Tesla employee, Roosevelt Jointer, from Reno, Nevada, has filed a case in a Texas court because the auto company sacked him without...
Mark Zuckerberg warns employees about repercussions of poor performance
In a weekly interaction with employees, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Meta, which owns Facebook, has indicated that the Company will up the heat in terms...
145 jobs cut at FrontRow
FrontRow, the edtech startup, has laid off about 145 members of its team, that is, 30 per cent of its workforce. Maximum employees were...
Another company follows in Better.com’s footsteps, fires 800 via video message
A British shipping and logistics firm, P&O Ferries fired 800 seafarers through a video message. This came as a sudden shock to all the...
CNN staff fired for reporting to duty without vaccination
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...
Google fires yet another staff scientist, appoints new supervisor
Google has fired its scientist, Margaret Mitchell for violating the Company’s code of conduct and security policies. The Company has alleged that she moved...
GoAir suspends trainee pilot over objectionable social-media behaviour
Standing by its zero-tolerance policy, Go Air, the budget airline, had sacked a trainee pilot for posting objectionable comments on Twitter. The airline had...
Ola to lay off 15 to 20% of staff to improve...
Ola, the ride-hailing company, is gearing up to downsize. It plans to cut about 15 to 20 per cent of its approx. 6000 strong...
Union leader of Cognizant terminated for non-performance
The general secretary of the Forum for IT Employees (FITE), Elavarasan Raja, who has been an employee of Cognizant for five months now, has...
Barnes & Noble sacks CEO for violating company policy
The Company has said that the board was advised by a law firm in the decision to fire Parneros.
Mitsuba’s HR head shot at by sacked employee
An employee of Mitsuba who was sacked for unprofessional behaviour, shot the company’s HR head Binesh Sharma
DDI sacks employee over an irresponsible tweet
After Ashish Kaul’s hate tweet about the Kathua rape victim, the company suspended him; his Twitter account met the same fate.
Kotak Mahindra sacks employee for irresponsible social media comment
The assistant manager with the Kochi branch of Kotak Mahindra Bank had commented on social media justifying the gangrape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua.
HR-head in news for wrong reasons
Ola’s HR and admin head has been accused of fraudulent activities in recruitment, procurement, administration and IT.
Google fires engineer for highlighting gender gap issue and violating code...
James Damore’s memo resulted in his ouster.