New Delhi: After keeping quiet for a month over the non-payment of salaries, a section of pilots of Kingfisher Airlines on Saturday threatened not to report for duty from May 9, if the management failed to pay their January salaries. The pilots have also served a June 30 deadline to the management to clear all their salary arrears. "We have decided not to fly from May 9 if the management...
08:43 PM, May 05, 2012
Indore: A boat with nearly 11 bank employees on board capsized in the Narmada river near Maheshwar in Indore on Monday. Reports said seven of the bank employees had been rescued while four were still missing. The bank employees had gone to Indore for a training programme. The identity of the bank has not been revealed yet. ...
08:15 AM, Apr 30, 2012
Mumbai: Microsoft India on Thursday bagged the Randstad Award 2012 for the 'most attractive employer' in the country for the second consecutive year followed by Oracle India and Tata Consultancy Services. The Randstad Award 2012 was also given to Volkswagen India and Nokia India as special recognition in the auto and consumer durables industry sector, respectively. The award, instituted globally by leading HR services provider Randstad, aims to encourage best...
11:23 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: Interest rate on employees' provident fund will be increased to 8.6 per cent for the current fiscal, a move which will benefit around five crore subscribers. "The rates were brought down due to lower income (on investment in Special Deposit Schemes)...There is no question of minimum or maximum interest rates. We distribute it as per our revenue. Next time, it will be 8.6 per cent," Labour Minister Mallikarjun...
08:01 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: Employees across corporate India are expected to get a lower average salary hike of 11.54 per cent in 2012 compared to last year as companies are grappling with sluggish economic activities, says a survey. As per the survey conducted by HR consulting firm Right Step Consulting, the salary hikes for India will decline to 11.54 per cent in 2012 from 11.89 per cent in 2011. "After having grown...
04:40 AM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: Government on Thursday slashed interest rate on deposits in Employees Provident Fund from 9.5 per cent to 8.25 per cent for 2011-12 affecting over 4.7 crore subscribers. This cut was proposed by the Finance Ministry and a notification was issued by the Labour Ministry, official sources said. The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) had provided 9.5 per cent interest rate to its subscribers for 2010-11 after it found...
10:48 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Gurgaon administration on Wednesday washed its hands clean off the twin rape cases in the city, telling women instead to stay at home and not work beyond 8 pm in commercial establishments. The administration has reportedly directed all malls and commercial establishments to take permission from the Labour Department to have their women employees working beyond 8 pm. A second rape was reported from Gurgaon on Tuesday...
09:57 AM, Mar 14, 2012
New York: Close on the heels of a new CEO taking charge at Yahoo Inc, the internet giant is likely to cut thousands of jobs as part of a major restructuring exercise of its operations, a report has said. Amid the likelihood of major job cuts in the company's research unit, the Indian-origin head of Yahoo Labs, Prabhakar Raghavan, may also leave the company, the Wall Street Journal reported citing...
06:51 PM, Mar 06, 2012
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy on Monday said the government was waiting for the high court's consent to implement an agreement reached with the Telangana employees at the end of a 42-day-long strike last year. The chief minister told the assembly that the government has sought the court's permission to implement the agreement and hoped that the matter would come up in a couple of days....
04:03 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Vadodara: A section of bank employees has decided to observe one-day nationwide strike on February 28 in support of their various demands. All-India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA), which claims five lakh membership, has given the strike call. "We are opposed to the implementation of Khandelwal Committee recommendations and other reform measures like outsourcing of regular bank jobs. We are also demanding stringent measures to recover bad loans in banks," CH...
09:43 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Mamata Banerjee has introduced a proposal to debar employees from forming trade unions. ...
10:33 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Five lakh bank employees under the banner of AIBEA will extend support to the strike by central trade unions on February 28 protesting the "anti-labour and anti-worker" policies of the government, a top functionary of the All India Bank Employees Association said on Saturday. All the central trade unions (BMS, INTUC, HMS, CITU,AIUTUC, TUCC, and UTUC) would strike work on that day, CH Venkatachalam, General Secretary of the All...
11:13 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Hyderabad: The leaders of pro-Telangana employees of Andhra Pradesh government, who have been in the forefront of separate statehood agitation, on Sunday met Union Minister and Congress general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad here. "We have come here to urge him to table the bill for formation of separate Telangana during the Budget session of Parliament," K Swamy Goud, a union leader, told reporters after the meeting. According to Gaud, Azad...
02:13 PM, Jan 22, 2012
Ahmedabad: In a major verdict, the Gujarat high court on Friday told the state government to discard its 'fixed pay job employment scheme' stating that it was exploitative in nature. The verdict could impact about 1.5 lakh employees who have been recruited under the scheme in different government departments. A division bench of acting chief justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and justice JB Pardiwala also told the state government to give regular...
11:14 PM, Jan 20, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Around 500 employees of Air India in Kerala are having a tough time as the ailing national carrier has not paid their salaries for the last three months. "We are all having a tough time, because since March last year salaries are not getting credited as it used to happen. The last time we received our salary was for the month of October and the productivity linked incentive (PLI)...
05:45 PM, Jan 06, 2012
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