According to Economic Times report, due to the falling rate of economic growth in 2019, the job market may remain muted in the new year as well in terms of workforce expansion and salary hikes as more and more companies are expected to prefer the up-skilling of existing staff rather than hiring new ones, experts feel.
Indian Staffing Federation's President...
As we enter a new decade, it is time to analyze the new trends that will dominate the field of HR in the coming year. The constant evolution in the industry creates the need for organizations to continually upgrade themselves to attract, motivate and retain employees and achieve business results. Some of the key trends as I envisage are...
Dhanya Rajeswaran joins CenturyLink as Country HR Director. Prior to this, she was working as Director & HR head for Accenture Digital, Consulting and Corporate Functions in India.
CenturyLink, Inc. is a global technology company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana that offers communications, network services, security, cloud solutions, voice, and managed services. The company is a member of the S&P 500...
Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) has denied revision of wages to its around 1,900 permanent workers at the Manesar plant until next year, citing the slowdown in vehicle demand and falling revenues as the primary reason, two people aware of the development said.
The last wage revision happened in August 2015, under which the permanent staff got a salary...
Every HR forum is talking of future trends, all
white papers and human capital consulting reports are focused on what’s
changing in the near future. Well, the future is here and now. No new major
change will take place in 2020. No new trends emerging. However, few areas will
gather more velocity.
Behavioral sciences will be leveraging technology to get better insights through...
Small gestures of kindness by employers can have big impacts on employees' health and work performance.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa: According to an international team of researchers. The team specifically examined the effects of employers enhancing the lunches of bus drivers in China with fresh fruit and found that it reduced depression among the drivers and increased their confidence in their...
The labour ministry plans to launch a new portal 'Santusht' in Jan 2020 for the speedy redressal of worker as well as employer grievances and ensuring effective implementation of labour laws at the grassroots level. Initially, Santusht (Hindi for satisfied) would monitor all services provided by retirement fund body EPFO and health insurance and services provider ESIC to formal...
The labour ministry will enforce the retirement fund body EPFO's decision to restore pension commutation, or advance part-withdrawal, under the Employees' Pension Scheme from January 1, 2020, a move which will benefit 6.3 lakh pensioners, PTI reports.
These 6.3 lakh pensioners had opted for commutation of their pension and got a lump sum amount at the time of retirement...
Being at the epicenter of the
digital revolution, technology can play a differentiated role in providing
state of the art employee experiences. Today, the complexity in our personal
lives is made simple through well-orchestrated services enabled by advanced
technologies. Technologies, such as AI & ML, have already started to
transform almost all aspects of HR, ranging from candidate experience at hiring
to recommending personalized learning...
According to a 2015 report by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and Biz Divas, a diversity and inclusion consulting firm, as many as 98% of companies surveyed said that they have not taken any concrete steps to make their workplace lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)-friendly—or hire people from the community.
The report called “Inclusion in India Inc.” surveyed 21 companies—15 multinationals and six Indian companies...