Due to the practice in social distancing and quarantine to flatten the curve of the pandemic, there has been a rise in demand by online consumers.
According to media sources, the e-commerce giant Amazon said that it would hire 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers in the United States to deal with a surge in online orders.
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Reliance to provide double salaries to all its employees whose salary is less than Rs 30,000
According to Times of India, Reliance Industries has announced that the employees who are below the salary range of Rs 30000 will be paid their salary twice in order to protect their cash flow and mitigate any overwhelming financial burden.
The company will continue...
In view of COVID-19 outbreak, India has offered several relaxations under the Income Tax Act and other direct tax laws to assuage taxpayers especially on statutory and regulatory compliance matters related to several sectors.
While addressing the press conference through video conferencing here on 24th March, Smt. Sitharaman announced much-needed relief measures in areas of Income Tax, GST, Customs...
The Narendra Modi government has issued an advisory to both private and public companies to not lay off employees or cut their salaries, in the wake of the COVID-19 or novel coronavirus crisis.
Concerned about likely job losses and pay cuts due to the coronavirus crisis, the Ministry of Labour & Employment on Monday asked all the employers of public/private...
Amidst Coronavirus outbreak, India's major automobile companies like Bajaj Auto, Ford Motor, TVS Motor, and Renault-Nissan, etc have announced the temporarily shut down of their manufacturing plants.
Two-wheeler major TVS Motor Company in a statement said, "In view of COVID-19, and considering the safety and well being of its employees, the company as an interim measure has decided to shut...
India's largest IT services company Tata Consultancy Services' Global Head of IT Amit Jain passed away last week after a massive heart attack. Jain, 53, was based out of Mumbai. He suffered a cardiac arrest while he was at work, and was rushed to a nearby hospital. He passed away on March 19.
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In the current situation, many companies are offering Work From Home, or WFH. I had an opportunity to work from home for about 6 months during my tenure with one of the organizations.
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The Government of India is working on measures and packages to provide relief to subscribers and employers in the organized sector as the Covid-19 outbreak shuts factories and offices, takes a toll on jobs and impacts livelihoods.
These measures include-
Waiving off the penalties on late provident fund deposits by employers.Doubling of the minimum pension to Rs 2,000.Priority approval for all...
In view of Government of India guidelines to contain spreading of COVID-19, Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) advises it members, pensioners and employers to avail various online services offered by EPFO, from the comfort of their homes, and to avoid visiting EPFO offices.
Most of the services of EPFO are available online. An employee can generate his/her own Universal Account...
Metals and mining giant Vedanta Ltd on Sunday announced setting up of a Rs 100-crore fund to combat the coronavirus outbreak.
The fund will be utilised to provide preventive healthcare to daily wage workers, company employees and contract workers in and around various plants of the company, Vedanta said in a statement.
"I commit 100 crore towards fighting the pandemic. We...