The incident highlights the need to shift our perception of...
Category:
Workplace/Employee Benefits
Latest
CrowdStrike blames defect in content update for massive IT crash
The incident crashed Microsoft Windows computer systems around the...
Govt announces to remove angel tax on startups for all classes of investors
While previously the angel tax -- a tax levied on capital received...
75 lakh people lose jobs in April as lockdowns sprout; unemployment at a 4-month high: CMIE chief
The national unemployment rate touched 7.97 per cent as per the centre’s proprietary data, with urban areas witnessing higher stress at 9.78 per cent and rural joblessness at 7.13 per cent.
World of work needs resilient occupational safety and health systems: ILO
“There could be no clearer demonstration of the importance of a strong, resilient, occupational safety and health environment. Recovery and prevention will require better national policies, institutional and regulatory frameworks, properly integrated into crisis response frameworks,” said ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder.
Increased cancer risk for petroleum industry workers and people living near plants: New UN study
The findings add to increasing evidence of the health consequences of air pollution from petroleum extraction and refining.
After Facebook, LinkedIn faces massive 500 mn users’ data leak: Report
The leaked data up on sale includes LinkedIn IDs, full names, email addresses, phone numbers, genders, links to LinkedIn profiles, links to other social media profiles, professional titles and other work-related data
“While users on the hacker forum can view the leaked samples for about $2 worth of forum credits, the threat actor appears to be auctioning the much-larger 500 million user database for at least a 4-digit sum, presumably in bitcoin,” the report mentioned.
COVID-19 vaccination at public, private workplaces having 100 eligible beneficiaries from Apr 11
“In order to increase the access of vaccine to these populations, COVID-19 vaccination sessions may be organised at work places (both public & private) which are having about 100 eligible and willing beneficiaries by tagging these work places with an existing COVID vaccination centre,” Bhushan said in the letter.
“Such work place vaccination centres may be launched across states/Union territories from April 11, 2021,” he said.
Take Friday afternoons off this Summer, PwC tells U.K. staff
“We want to help enshrine new working patterns so they outlast the pandemic,” said Kevin Ellis, chairman and senior partner at PwC. “Without conscious planning now there’s a risk we lose the best bits of these new ways of working when the economy opens up again.”
Over 1.55 lakh cos incorporated last fiscal in India
“During the financial year 2020-21, Ministry of Corporate Affairs registered more than 1.55 lakh company incorporations as compared to 1.22 lakh companies during FY 2019-20, an increase of about 27 per cent,” the release said.
Gig economy can support 90 million jobs in India, add 1.25% to GDP: BCG Report
The gig economy, where workers get hired typically for short durations, can lead to transactions of over USD 250 billion over the long term, the report by the consultancy firm BCG said.
The firm said gig economy is not a new concept but has seen greater adoption following the advent of technology.
‘Work from home jobs’ searches in 2020 surged 140% in India: Google report
This, “Learning anything, anywhere”, is one amongst the three major changes in user behaviour that have emerged based on search trends spanning Search and YouTube in 2020, Google said.
The searches for learning went beyond academics, and focused on learning for career progression, upskilling, entrepreneurship, and supplementary income, with four in five people coming to YouTube to learn something new, Google said.
One year since lockdown: India still recovering from unemployment blow
The data showed that the unemployment rate had peaked to 23.5 per cent in April and remained at 21.7 per cent in May. It started tapering off from June onward when it was recorded at 10.2 per cent in the month and further improved to 7.4 per cent in July.
However, the unemployment rate again rose slightly to 8.3 in August and improved to 6.7 per cent in September last year, as per CMIE data.