The gig economy is growing every year at a rapid pace, it is expected to expand to 2.35 crore by 2029-30. The mutual benefit of companies and workers from the gig economy is a major reason behind moonlighting, mass resignation, and layoff waves. Both companies and workers are now opting for gig...
Punjab and Haryana High Court in Bhajan Singh vs. PRTC CWP 13281/2017, while responding to the question as to whether a notional break of 1 (one) day between the employee’s temporary service and regular service can be read to the peril of the employee to reject his claim for counting of the...
Criminal proceedings not sustainable against VP-HR for not depositing PF contributions: Karnataka HC
Karnataka High Court in CH K.S. Prasad @ K S Prasad vs. State of Karnataka & Anr. CP No.195/2020, quashed the proceedings initiated against an employee appointed as asenior vice-president, human resources in the establishment under Section 409 (criminal breach of trust) and Section 420...
Delhi High Court in P vs. Union of India and Ors. W.P.(C) No. 14403/2022, imposed the cost of INR 1,00,000/- on the employer holding that the employee should not be harassed and put to inconvenience to appear again and again before the Complaints Committee (CC) due to the fault of the employer in...
Guwahati High Court in Smt. Pramila Barman vs. The Assam Power Distribution Company Limited and 4 Ors WP(C) No. 1725/2022,on February 8, 2023 while responding to the question as to whether the employer was justified to recover the excess payments paid to employee on account of overstay in service...
The Supreme Court has said that a daily wage worker cannot be regularised if his appointment has not been made by the competent authority against a sanctioned post. A bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Sudhanshu Dhulia dismissed an appeal filed by a daily wager, Vibhuti Shankar Pandey against an...
Apple Inc. is hiring its first chief people officer and shifting human resources duties from its head of retail, overhauling the way the tech giant hires and supports employees. The company is naming Carol Surface to the new role, Chief Executive Officer, Tim Cook said in a memo to employees. That...
Yahoo Inc. will eliminate about 1,000 jobs beginning this week, or roughly 12% of its employees, the first round of cuts in a larger plan to restructure its advertising tech division amid a wave of layoffs in the industry. The company, owned by Apollo Global Management Inc., plans to reduce...
Chinese video app TikTok has apparently slacked off its whole Indian workforce. As per a report by the Economic Times, the China based ByteDance-owned application has given pink slips to 40 people this week after a call. The report stated that a severance pay of nine months would be given to the...
Worsening margins and high cost put high salaried IT sector employees under scrutiny: Report
IT employees who were hired at exorbitant salaries last year will have to justify it through their performance and contributions, according to analysts as reported by the Economic Times (ET). This comes on the back of worsening margins and a tougher economic environment for the IT sector worldwide...