Westlife Foodworld Ltd. (formerly Westlife Development Ltd.)– owner and operator of McDonald’s restaurants in West and South India, has appointed Rohith Kumar as the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). Rohith will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of human resources and will play a key...
When a PG in English literature from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi and a seasoned HR professional Preeti Bose pen down her first full length contemporary fiction on workplace romance and betrayal- A FACE FOR YOU, reader can have a very different expectations from such work. And Preeti has...
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Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act
The Book on Sexual harassment by H L Kumar and Gaurav Kumar can be termed as one of the best books on the subject that provides practical application of law at workplace. The procedure, manner of enquiry and model formats make the book very useful and provide guidance to persons practicing in the...
The Karnataka High Court has said that merely because the employer has transferred a workman to a particular place, the workman cannot be expected to initiate proceedings in that place. Justice Suraj Govindaraj said this while granting relief to a dismissed medical representative working for...
(PTI):Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) feels generative artificial intelligence platforms like ChatGPT will create an “AI co-worker” and not replace jobs. Milind Lakkad, the chief human resources officer (CHRO) of the country’s largest IT services firm that employs over 6 lakh...
(IANS): The year 2023 is set to become the worst year for tech employees as in just two months, 417 companies have laid off more than 1.2 lakh workers globally. In comparison, 1,046 tech companies — from Big Tech to startups — laid off more than 1,61 lakh employees in 2022, as per the data by...
Syed Kaleem Raza has been appointed as Global Head -HR by Datametica. Datametica is a global leader in data warehouse migration and modernization to the cloud. Saleem was associated with the company as Freelance Global Tal Acquisition head for about one and a half year and then taken up the full...
Supreme Court in The General Manager South Eastern Coalfields Ltd. & Ors. vs. Avinash Kumar Tiwari SLA (C) No. 14238/2022, reiterated the settled legal position that the employees cannot wake up from their slumber after a long time and seek alteration of date of birth towards the fag end of...
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Employee has no right to retain co. accommodation on transfer or end of service: Uttarakhand HC
Uttarakhand High Court in Sunil Prasad Bhatt vs. State of Uttarakhand & others W.P No. 144/2022, on February 21, 2023 allowing the writ petition of employer seeking direction against illegal occupant of government residences for eviction and recovery of rent, observed that employees are not...
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Principles of natural justice to be followed even in contractual employee dismissal: Orissa HC
Orissa High Court in Bichitrananda Barik vs. State of Odisha and others W.P.(C) No. 10146/2018, on February 21, 2023 while rejecting the argument of employer that being a contractual employee no rules or procedure are required to be followed before disengaging him, observed that it is the settled...
