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India / A national floor level minimum wage mandatory for all unskilled workers
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ratified a proposal to make the national floor level minimum wage mandatory for all unskilled workers in the country at a meeting of the union cabinet on late Thursday evening. The decision coincided with the conclusion of a two-day national strike called by all central trade unions to protest the government’s … Continue reading
India / Millions of India’s workers walked off their jobs against “anti-labour” policies
Millions of India’s workers walked off their jobs on Wednesday in a two-day nationwide strike called by trade unions to protest at the “anti-labour” policies of the embattled government. Financial services and transport were hit by the strike called by 11 major workers’ groups to protest at a series of pro-market economic reforms announced by … Continue reading
India / Public Sectors Banks (PSU) to hire 56,500 jobs in next 6 months
Public sector banks, from State Bank of IndiaBSE 0.85 % to Allahabad BankBSE 1.79 %, will hire as many as 56,500 people in the next six months in the highest ever recruitment drive by the industry in more than a decade as business grows and the threat of new banks looms as the Reserve Bank … Continue reading
India / Unemployable engineers on menial jobs
Seven years ago Raja Kumar, a butcher, did not think twice about mortgaging his land to fund his son’s engineering education. Little did he know that his son Senthil Kumar would pass out four years later learning less than enough to get a job suitable to his level of education. After searching for a job … Continue reading
India / Railway Protection Force (RPF) to start hiring 18,000 policemen
Almost a decade after an internal survey conducted by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) showed that it would require at least 24,000 policemen in its jurisdiction, the nationwide recruitment for 18,000 will begin in June. At present, the force has around 65,000 personnel. However, a senior railway official pointed out that the whole exercise is … Continue reading
India / Monster launches a section for temporary jobs
In order to facilitate both job-seekers and employers find contractual jobs/talent, job portal Monster India announced on Wednesday a new section. It hopes that the new section, Contract Jobs, for professional, contractual and temporary hiring in India would enable better access to the pool of talent looking for contractual employment and companies that look to … Continue reading
India / Part-time jobs have become a boon for student
Both boys and girls – just passed out of the campus or still pursuing their courses and preparing for competitive examinations are taking up part time jobs as receptionist, life insurance agents, telesales consultants, catering companies’ staff etc as they find it difficult to do a regular eight-nine hours job in an organization. “We prefer … Continue reading
Finland / Nokia cuts 300 IT jobs and outsources 820 jobs in India
Nokia Corp. NOK -1.51% Thursday announced more job cuts in Finland as part of a move to outsource its information technology operations to Indian suppliers. Nokia said it would outsource some of its IT operations to two Indian IT suppliers, HCL Technologies Ltd. and TATA Consultancy Services Ltd. , India’s largest software exporter. As part … Continue reading
India / State minorities development minister: ‘Give minorities priority in government jobs’
State minorities development minister Naseem Khan on Monday asked officials to give priority to people from the minority communities for government and semi-government jobs. Observing that the representation of the minorities in such jobs continued to be low, Khan said that instructions to give jobs to minorities on priority had been issued to the state … Continue reading
India / Tata Consultancy Services: 24,000 offers to campus placements
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) today said it has given campus offers to 24,000 people, who will be joining the organisation in 2013-14. “We had said we would hire 25,000 from campuses in the next fiscal (2013-14). We have already rolled 24,000 offers, who will join the company starting July,” company’s Executive Vice-president and Global Head … Continue reading
India / Five Twitters to end your job search
Here are five Indian Twitter accounts that will help you get the job exactly what you are looking for: 1.OptimusGuru 2.Minglebox 3.SarkariJobs4all 4.CJ-India 5.eBharatJobs Choosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor from via Five Indian Twitter accounts to end your job search – daily.bhaskar.com.
Infosys / Doesn’t deny layoffs but …
Indian software major, Infosys Limited, clarified on Friday over a report suggesting that it might lay off up to 5,000 of its underperforming employees. It says that it is not 5,000, but “the number that may be affected is significantly lower.” Just a week ahead of its third quarter results for 2013 (Q3 FY13), the … Continue reading
India / Unemployment Insurance / Uttarakhand removes the cap of one person per family
The Uttarakhand government today decided to liberalise norms for the unemployment allowance scheme in the face of stinging criticism from the opposition. The scheme, which was launched with much fanfare on November 9 last year, had failed to find favour with the jobless mainly due to its stringent norms. The scheme had covered only 834 … Continue reading
India / IT and Education Top the List of Job Creating Sectors
Amidst global financial crisis and sluggish economic growth that hampered the growth and employment opportunities in the country, there were few sunshine sectors that created huge job opportunities. Here is a list of such sunshine sectors in India that created new job opportunities in the year 2012, as reported by Anumeha Chaturvedi and Shreya Biswas on The … Continue reading
India / Factory Jobs up by 7.8%, wages by 18.1% in 2010-11: Survey – The Economic Times
The number of jobs in industries increased by 7.8 per cent while wages rose by 18.1 per cent in real terms in 2010-11, a government survey has said. Total persons engaged in different industries were 1.27 crore in 2010-11 compared to 1.17 crore in 2009-10, according to the Annual Industries Survey released by the Ministry … Continue reading
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