Tag: US

While recession has not set in yet, it may not be too far away either feel some experts. At a time when economists were...

Zoho Corp., the Chennai-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) company is looking to expand its team in India and outside. It is looking out for engineers, web...

Lexi Larson who is based out of Denver in the US had recently joined a tech company. She was hired after receiving a commendable...

This year, the processing time for employer-sponsored green cards has again increased. Now, it will take at least three years to process. However, the...

A study by the Wall Street Journal has revealed that the medium average salary of employees at 25 top US companies exceeded $100,000 in...

Wages across the US are witnessing record hikes. While vacancies are at a record high, about 4.5 million people have quit their jobs. That means,...

Amazon’s workers in Staten Island, New York, have managed to get together and form the first ever Amazon union in the US till date....

Walmart is gearing to hire 50,000 workers in the US in about a month’s time. The American retailer is reportedly hiring workers for its...

Google has relaxed some of its COVID-19 measures and protocols related to vaccination, testing and social distancing for its US employees. In a mail written...

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...

Employees of Walmart in the US who need to self-isolate or have tested positive for COVID-19 will now only get a week’s paid leave...

Walmart is gearing to enhance its home delivery facility, for which it needs more drivers in its already 100-strong fleet. It plans to hire...

The New Year will see the minimum wage going up across many states of the US. Starting January 2022, the minimum wage in Maryland...

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...

The Department of Homeland Security, for the first time ever, is offering 20,000 more H-2B or guest-worker visas to temporary workers, this winter. Earlier, additional...

Never has the US witnessed such a dip in the number of applications for unemployment benefits since 1969. However, experts attribute this to seasonal factor...

With many aviation companies making vaccination compulsory for their employees in the US, Boeing will also require its entire US workforce to get inoculated....

The employees of IBM in the US have been directed to get themselves fully vaccinated by December 8. If they fail to do so,...

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the multinational professional services network of firms, has announced that it will have 40,000 employees from its US workforce working from home...

A massive shortage of bus drivers is being seen in the states of New Jersey, Florida and Pennsylvania in the US. In fact, the...

Job openings, which reflect the demand for labour, went up to over 10 million. Economists had predicted that employment opportunities would increase with over...

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...

With cases of the Delta variant rising in the US, many employers are making it mandatory for their staff to get their shots. Some...

A unique job fair was organised by a bus company called First Student, in Kansas, US. The fair was aimed at recruiting drivers for...

Nestle’s recently-acquired meal-delivery service is launching a second distribution centre in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, in the US. The new centre, which cost a whopping...

Ahead of implementing ‘return to office’, many organisations are updating their employee records with the vaccination status of the staff. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...

There was a time when owing to the high level of confidentiality involved in accounting firms, the very thought of shifting accounting work offshore...

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...

Synechron, the digital transformation consulting firm, is all set to expand its India team by about 2,000 professionals. The objective is to give a...

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...

JP Morgan, the American investment bank and financial services company, has revealed its intention to hire about 4,000 technology professionals, with experience, for its...

Subway is gearing to hire 40,000 in May across the US for various roles, from entry to managerial level. The surge in sales has...

The enhanced benefits that the US government is providing to the unemployed — an additional $300 a week — is actually making it difficult...

The rule that would have facilitated classifying gig workers as independent contractors rather than employees may soon be on its way out, if the...

Apple has revealed intentions to invest over $430 billion and create 20,000 new jobs in the US over the next five years. This will...

The rate of job openings attained a record high level in February, which is a good sign for job seekers. The number of vacancies...

Indian information technology multinational, Infosys, is expanding its Retirement Services Centre of Excellence in Pennsylvania, US. As part of the expansion process, it will...

The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) has identified 42 lakh jobs, both blue- and grey –collar — about three lakh opportunities in...

However, the scenario does not look very bright if the period post outbreak of the coronavirus is considered. The Labour Department reveals that 8,47,000...

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...

The US has amended the H-1B visa selection procedure of deserving candidates with priority being given to candidates who have higher wages and better...

Mass Mutual, the US life insurance company, will invest Rs 1,000 crore on its first offshore global capability centre, in Hyderabad. The Company, based...

For the next five years, Amazon is set to invest over $2 billion to build affordable housing in the US cities of Nashville and...

Cornell Johnson Graduate School for Management, is one of the top 25 schools in the US that reported salary and bonus growth despite the...

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...

Having bagged some great deals and with many more in the pipeline, Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS), which is a BPO under the Hinduja Group,...

Dutch bank, ING, will lay off 1000 employees by 2021 and shut its offices in South America and Asia. Nike also revealed its intention...

Beijing-based Chinese internet technology company, ByteDance, has announced cash bonuses to all its eligible staff, which is good news for its 2,000 strong workforce...

Looks like the number of Indian tech experts and others who move to work in the US on H-1B visas will soon start dwindling....

The US Department of Labour has suggested increasing the minimum wages of H-1B visa holders. A proposal to this effect was submitted by the...