(PTI): Expanding the social security coverage for unorganised workers and pursuing states to make rules for labour codes will be the key priorities for the government in 2023, as efforts continue to strengthen the country’s labour market. With India set to host G-20 leaders’ summit for...
(Reuters): The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has recommended the central government to include gig workers in India’s pension fold. Presently, gig workers are not enrolled in the National Pension Scheme (NPS), the voluntary pension service scheme in India...
Biorad Medisys, a medical device manufacturing company, has appointed Indranil Sen as Group Head – Human Resources, Administration and Employee Development Programme. Sen will be based in Pune (Maharashtra) and reporting to MD of the company. Prior to joining Biorad Medisys, Sen was associated as...
(IANS): The government’s reforms to boost local manufacturing have triggered the creation of new jobs in the sector, and 60 per cent of employers in the manufacturing segment aim to recruit and expand their resource pool in the first quarter of 2023, a report showed on Tuesday. The positive higher...
Dhriti Ranjana Ray (PTI): A mixed bag of opportunities is likely to greet job aspirants in the New Year as telecom and services-oriented sectors are anticipated to accelerate hiring after recent gloomy months of pink slips in the technology segment amid global economic turmoil. Short-term...
(IANS): Thousands lost jobs amid deepening funding winter in 2022 as massive layoffs by the tech companies this year alone surpassed the levels from the Great Recession the world went through in 2008-2009 that began with Lehman Brothers collapse. In 2008, tech companies laid off about 65,000...
(IANS): Online payments solutions provider PayU has tereminated close to 150 employees, less than 6 per cent of its total workforce, as part of an “organisational realignment”. The terminations came as PayU witnessed a successful year and its revenues grew 38 per cent to $183 million in...
(PTI): A significant percentage of employees are demanding more flexibility in their working lives, and they are prepared to make compromises to get it, as per a report. According to the ADP Research Institute’s People at Work 2022: A Global Workforce View, which surveyed almost 33,000...
(PTI) : The blue-collar industry has witnessed a sharp rise in job opportunities in the country and tier 2 cities have become the epicenters for such opportunities, said a report. According to professional networking and jobs platform apna.co, blue-collared job opportunities more than doubled in...
(PTI): The CBI on Monday arrested Videocon Group founder Venugopal Dhoot in connection with the ICICI Bank loan fraud case, officials said. The 71-year-old Dhoot was arrested from Mumbai after a brief questioning session on Monday morning, hours before former CEO and MD of the ICICI Bank Chanda...
