Amid the season of hiring and firing, IT major Wipro on 20th Jan. sacked around 450 fresher employees. According to media reports, Wipro has sacked the employees due to poor performance in an internal test. The report suggested that Wipro found the performance of the freshers poor after an internal...
(PTI): The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) added 16.26 lakh subscribers on a net basis in November 2022, which is 16.5 per cent higher compared to a year ago, the labour ministry said. The provisional payroll data of the Retirement fund body EPFO released on Friday by the ministry...
(Reuters) – Ravi Verma, hired by an electrical parts manufacturing firm early last year as India’s economy surged, was fired in November when the company lost several export orders. He has since remained unemployed, unable to pay back a 100,000 rupee ($1,224) loan he took to buy a two-wheeler...
(PTI): A 34-year-old man was arrested for allegedly cheating several people on the pretext of providing government jobs in the DMRC, police said on Saturday. The accused has been identified as Pawan Bhardwaj, a resident of Goyala Dairy, they said. A man had on November 7, 2022, lodged a complaint...
(IANS): With more Big Tech companies like Microsoft and Google joining the ongoing layoff season, about 3,000 tech employees are now being laid off per day on average in January globally, including in India. The sacking episodes have gained speed amid global economic meltdown and recession fears...
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Thousands of Indian IT professionals now jobless in US. Struggling to find new employment
(PTI): Thousands of Indian IT professionals in the US, who have lost their jobs due to the series of recent layoffs at companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon, are now struggling to find new employment within the stipulated period under their work visas following the termination of their...
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Inquiry in sexual harassment cases cannot be vitiated merely because it cannot be concluded within the statutory period of 90 (ninety) days: Delhi HC
Recently, the Delhi High Court in CA Nitesh Parashar vs. Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) &Ors. W.P No. 88/2023, held that the complaint of sexual harassment and the inquiry proceeding emanating therefrom cannot be quashed merely for the reasons that the internal complaints...
Madras High Court in Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (Coimbatore) Ltd and another vs. B Rajeswari W.P No. 1692/2022, On January 12, 2023, allowed the maternity benefit to the female employee who was employed on temporary basis while referring to the judgment of Supreme Court Municipal...
Delhi High Court in Sneh Aggarwal vs. Punjab National Bank W.P No. 4852/2014, on January 18, 2023 while dismissing the writ petition filed by an employee who was dismissed from services on the ground of misconduct basis the outcome of disciplinary enquiry against the charges of fraud observed that...
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ESI Act will remain applicable on establishment even if the employees number fall below the limit: SC
Supreme Court in the ESI Corporation vs. M/s. Radhika Theatre S.L.P No. 12520/2022, on January 20, 2023, while answering the question as to whether demand notices issued, post 20.10.1989 (from the date by which sub-section (6) of Section 1 of the ESI Act came be inserted), on a factory or an...
