Tag: pay

UK firms prefer hiring temporary workers amidst rising wages

As per a survey, permanent employee appointments have come down in London and hiring decisions are being delayed. While the number of permanent hires...

Britain’s postal workers’ union to avert disruptions due to strike

Leaders of the trade union, Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) representing postal workers in Britain who are on strike, were scheduled to meet executives from...

Do employees want better pay and less benefits or vice versa?

The age when employees used to settle for whatever their employers offered is long past now. Today’s employees are actively seeking better pay and...

Assam government to hike wages of tea garden workers

Finally, there will be an increment in the daily wages of the tea garden workers in the Brahmaputra and Barak Valley. With effect from...

Why startups need to pay more attention to hiring right

What determines the success or failure of a startup? Is it raising seed capital or is it getting the minimum viable product (MVP) right?...

How sustainable is it to pay star performers above the market...

Paying star performers above the market rate is quite common in the corporate world. Today’s job market is characterised by fierce competition for talent,...

58,000 employees of general insurance PSU sector will go on 2-day...

Since the pay revision for PSU employees working in the general Insurance sector has been pending for a long time, the General Insurance Employees...

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...

50,000 railway employees will join Britain’s biggest rail strike

The railway network in Britain is set to face a lot of disruption given the strike call by the railway employees. This is the...

Microsoft to hike pay, annual stock options

Given the volatility of the labour market, Microsoft has decided to make long-term investments in its employees. It has almost doubled its budget for...

Why CHROs command the same pay as other CXOs

In the last two years, organisations have seen the wrath of the pandemic and also realised that ‘people’ are at the core of the...

How businesses pay their critical talent for their ‘value’

In any organisation, there will always be some set of skills, certain roles or talent that are more valued than others. This is because,...

Better.com announces another round of layoffs

Better.com, who’s founder and CEO, Vishal Garg has been in news for laying off 900 people on a zoom call is set for another...

Amazon to double its pay base cap to $350,000

Amazon is planning to more than double its base pay cap to $350,000 (about Rs 2.6 crore) from its previous maximum salary of $160,...

NYC Mayor receives pay in cryptocurrency

Eric Adams, mayor of New York City, is still going ahead with his plans to accept his first three pay cheques in the form...

‘Can’t pay employees on time? Pay fine of 50,000 dirham’: UAE...

If you are an employer in the United Arab Emirates and are unable to pay your employees on time, then you’ll have a lot...

Google employees to lose pay if they don’t get vaccinated

Google has warned employees that they’ll lose pay and eventually be fired from their jobs if they fail to get vaccinated by January 18,...

New pay scales for Himachal government staff; contractual staff to be...

Employees of Himachal Pradesh government will now have their pay scales revised in accordance with the Sixth Pay Commission, with effect from January, 2016....

Promotions for some Central government cadres with pay hike

Along with an increase in the dearness allowance, the Central government will also dole out promotions to a few cadres of employees. A formal...

$1 hike in pay for 5.6 lakh Walmart employees

Amidst the acute shortage of labour in the retail space in the US, Walmart has announced a raise of minimum one dollar in hourly...

Workers at Volkswagen’s Mexico unit negotiate 5.5% raise in pay, benefits

After three weeks of negotiations, Volkswagen’s Mexico unit has agreed to increase the pay and benefits of workers by 5.46 per cent, with increase...

Googlers can use Work Location Tool to calculate pay for remote...

Google has launched a platform that will allow its employees to calculate how much their pay or earnings will be if they decide to...

Salary hike for 5.4 lakh Punjab government employees

The Government of Punjab has given its nod to the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission with effect from January 1, 2016. Most of...

Stressed out docs, medical workers across India seek better treatment, pay

Even amidst the second wave of the pandemic, frontline workers, especially those associated with the medical field and the medical fraternity seem to be...

10 lakh contractual staff of Central govt to be paid like...

It has been reported that about 10 lakh employees of the Central government , who are working on contract and putting in eight hours...

Amazon employees demand safety, security and better pay

Employees at Amazon are protesting across the globe, against the unsatisfactory working conditions at the organisation. The staff is demanding more safety and security...

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Meta mandates in-office work for employees from September

In a move that reflects the shifting landscape of remote work in the tech industry, Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, is...

Taiwan’s Yang Ming Marine Transport is giving workers 30 months’ salary as bonus

Early this year, Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp. of Taiwan had awarded 12 months’ salary as bonus. Now, the shipping company has gone ahead...

MediBuddy appoints Seema Vijay Singh as senior VP, people & culture

MediBuddy has appointed Seema Vijay Singh as the senior vice president (SVP) of people & culture. With over two decades of experience in the...

Urban unemployment hits lowest level in 5 years, decreasing to 6.8% in 2022-23: PLFS 

The latest findings from the periodic labour force survey (PLFS)  show a continued decline in the urban unemployment rate, reaching a notable milestone in...

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Data analytics and not technology will redefine HR

Q. How satisfying has been your professional journey of 39 years? A. It has been a bagful of mixed experiences. At times I have been...

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....