TCS, the country's largest software services firm, today defended itself over reports that it has pink-slipped 2,574 employees in the first nine months of this fiscal, and as the total layoffs in the full year are expected to exceed 3,000

Unprecedented: IT workers unite to launch stir against TCS layoffs

03 Jan 2015

According to FITE founding member Bharatidasan, TCS has asked 700 employees in Hyderabad, 470 in Bangalore, 480 in Chennai, 70 in Pune and 20 in Kochi to leave, while several hundreds were told that they would be called by HR

2015 to be bumper year for job-seekers; see big pay hikes

01 Jan 2015

Draft bill seeks to exempt small firms from mandatory labour laws

01 Jan 2015

The draft bill exempts firms employing less than 40 persons from the requirement of payment of provident fund, bonus and ESIS cover while giving hire-and-fire powers to employers

Public sector banks to finally get separate chairman, MD

01 Jan 2015

ING Vyasa unions threaten strike against Kotak Bank merger

29 Dec 2014

KMB, which has no union, had written to all the ING Vysya Bank employees to allay concerns, but that “bypassed” the Vysya union, which fears it will lose control with the merger

Bank unions to intensify stir for wage settlement, strike work on 7 January

22 Dec 2014

Foxconn India arm to offer severance package at Sriperumbudur factory

22 Dec 2014

Layoffs likely at TCS amid performance-related rejig of workforce

11 Dec 2014

BP to let go middle management as oil price fall bites

09 Dec 2014

BP, which suffered a major setback in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and subsequent compensation claims and is now struggling with low oil prices, plans to reduce the number of managers across all “layers above operations”

Tata Motors reaches pay deal with Jaguar Land Rover union

03 Dec 2014

Infosys may sack more at BPO unit for 'overcharging Apple'

20 Nov 2014

Internal investigations have revealed that they had produced inflated invoices and purportedly overbilled Apple for many months, although the he amount involved was "financially insignificant"

One-third of workforce prefers holidays over pay hikes: survey

17 Nov 2014

Infosys to hire over 2,100 including 600 graduates in the US

06 Nov 2014

Google rated most sought after employer in survey

03 Nov 2014

Google has been rated the most sought after employer in the world, followed by Apple, Unilever and Microsoft

Nokia shutters its Chennai plant; workers get Rs7.5 lakh package

31 Oct 2014

Nokia's Chennai plant has been forced to shut down after Microsoft Corporation, which bought out Nokia’s entire mobile phone business in September last year, excluded the Chennai plant due to a pending tax litigation between the government and Finnish company