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Christiern Dart appointed as CEO of MS Amlin
,Christiern Dart, CEO-Designate, MS Amlin Christiern brings more...
13 million people live with vision impairment linked to their work: ILO report
“The ILO stresses the importance of protecting workers’ safety and health – including their eyes. By prioritizing eye health awareness and effective implementation, we can make sure workers have access to a safe and healthy working environment. This ensures their...
FEATURE-India’s women gig workers organise with WhatsApp, secret meetings
India is one of the largest and fastest-growing markets for the so-called gig economy, with nearly 8 million workers in 2020-21, and forecast to expand to 24 million workers by 2029-30, according to government think-tank NITI Aayog Women make up a very small part of...
Precarious employment conditions may increase risk of early death: Study
“This is the first study to show that changing from precarious employment to secure employment can reduce the risk of death,” says the paper’s last author Theo Bodin, assistant professor at the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet Precarious...
Women are less happy than men – a psychologist on why and four things you can do about it
Studies show that when women engage in regular physical activity it increases self-acceptance and personal growth. Aerobic exercise is particularly helpful for cognitive health as women age. High impact, weight-bearing exercise such as jumping and running improve bone...
OIC CMD RR Singh to head GIPSA after Gupta
RR Singh, CMD, Oriental Insurance Company GIPSA earlier had four public sector general insurance companies, New India Assurance Company, United India Insurance Company, Oriental Insurance Company and NIC but recently the government has decided to add two new members-...
Under new Australian laws, jail, heavy fines for wage thieving employers
Under the proposed laws, the maximum criminal penalty for employers who are found to have intentionally engaged in wage theft will be increased to a 10-year imprisonment and fines worth up to 7.8 million Australian dollars ($5.03 million), or three times the amount...
Judge allows age-discrimination lawsuit against Elon Musk’s X to proceed
Elon Musk Illston ruled that the federal law banning workplace age bias allows plaintiffs to bring so-called “disparate impact” claims in a class action, an issue that has divided courts. A California federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit accusing X, the...
Sompo International appoints Vicky Sarjeant as Head of Energy Insurance, Asia Pacific
Sompo International, a global provider of commercial and consumer property and casualty (re)insurance, has appointed Vicky Sarjeant as Head of Energy Insurance, Asia Pacific. She will be based in Singapore, and report to Paul O’Neill, President of Commercial Lines,...
DFS asks GIPSA to include GIC Re and AIC as its members
The move by the DFS has come at a time when GIC Re had already expressed its desire to the DFS to be treated separately from the rest of PSU general insurers in some areas particularly deciding wages and allowances of its employees New Delhi: The Department of...
World needs to move beyond cyber security to cyber immunity: Kaspersky Labs CEO
“In an age where technology can be used by good guys and bad guys alike, traditional cyber security is no longer enough. We need to revolutionise our defences to ensure we create a more secure digital world,” Kaspersky Labs CEO Eugene Kaspersky Bali (Indonesia): As...