Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the second tranche of Covid stimulus of Rs 20 lakh crore aimed at the migrant workers, small farmers, street vendors and affordable housing. Key Highlights: Help for farmers and migrant workers in the Post-Covid period: 3 crore marginal farmers availed loans at concessional rates. These 3 cr farmers had already […]
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With the coronavirus effectively putting the world on lockdown, job seekers now face a new challenge – how to search in times of uncertainty. What can be done to keep a job search going strong during this time? Keep applying to jobs: Your job search should continue as usual. Keep sending in your applications and
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During the job application and interview process, employers look for applicants with hard skills and soft skills. Successful candidates will make sure to put both skill sets on display. In order to do so effectively, it helps to understand the difference between these two types of skills. Hard Skills: Hard skills are teachable abilities or skill sets that
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The coronavirus outbreak has already caused havoc. In this time of uncertainty and rapid change, consultancy firms are weighing in to assess the impact on different market segments. In an interaction with Sonali Misra, HR Head, Bain & Company (India), explains how the American management consultancy firm has revamped its strategy for employee well-being while making way for
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Employee engagement goes beyond the responsiveness of emails, meeting attendance, and maintaining relationships with other colleagues; it’s a two-way relationship of emotional commitment between the organization and each employee. With this mutual commitment defined, the definition of engagement can be interpreted differently depending on the nature of the business environment. Here are some of Ideas: Provide Tools:
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that starting today, she will hold daily pressers along with her teams to detail a number of responses the government has prepared to bring the economy back on track. Deadline for filing ITR pushed till 30 Nov Due date of all IT Return filings extended have been extended from 31
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To facilitate the employer to deduct tax at source (TDS) from salary, employees need to declare their tax-saving investments in the beginning of every financial year, i.e. in April. But this year, the nationwide lockdown, that has been imposed in the third week of March 2020 to contain the spread of highly contagious Novel Coronavirus
Labour law in India is rigid, and restricts mobility. It often has vague provisions, gives a great deal of discretionary power to the executive and, therefore, is extremely debilitating. Several surveys and studies that have asked investors what they are most worried about often come up with a familiar list: labour laws, land acquisition costs
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Work-From-Home (WFH) is a workable mechanism. However, this needs to be simultaneously facilitated through a change in both skillsets and mindset,” said Ranjan Kumar Mohapatra, director (HR), Indian Oil. Edited excerpts of an interview : We institutionalized WFH guidelines even before the commencement of the lockdown. Centralised communication on the subject ensured that there were no ambiguities
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