New Delhi, India: The Supreme Court has ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to regularise six daily-wage Class-IV employees who had been serving in the state higher education services commission since the early 1990s.Coming down heavily on the state for decades of exploitative “ad-hocism,” a Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta quashed a government…
In early 2023, IgniteTech CEO Eric Vaughan made a move that shook the tech world. He laid off nearly 80% of his workforce. The reason? Widespread resistance to adopting artificial intelligence (AI). Vaughan had introduced “AI Mondays,” a weekly day dedicated entirely to AI projects. But when employees, especially the technical teams, pushed back, he…
If your calendar looks like a Mumbai local at rush hour and Teams pings like a Diwali bazaar, you’re not alone; that bustle may not be real productivity. But it may not be real productivity. A new workplace habit is spreading: Fake productivity, the theatre of looking busy while sidestepping high-impact work. One recent clue:…
TCS CHRO Milind Lakkad and CHRO Designate K Sudeep confirmed that the salary adjustments would take effect from September 1. TCS salary hike: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT services firm, has announced salary hikes for approximately 80% of its staff members. The salary hikes will mainly cover the IT giant’s junior and mid-level…
Stanford University has announced the layoff of 363 employees as part of sweeping budget cuts it says are a direct result of federal policy changes under the Trump administration. The prestigious university cited “a challenging fiscal environment” driven by recent decisions from the White House targeting funding to institutions over campus protests and social inclusion…
Roughly 154,000 federal employees have taken buyouts offered by the Trump administration this year, part of a broader push to slim the federal workforce, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The resignations, which amount to 6.7 per cent of the civilian federal workforce, are the result of a program first launched in…
DHS demands I-9 documents as Harvard faces sweeping US employment and immigration inquiry Harvard University has confirmed it will submit I-9 employment verification records for nearly 19,000 current and former employees following a formal request by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), according to an internal email sent to staff. The request forms part…
As the final leg of the 7th Pay Commission nears, nearly 1 crore central government employees and pensioners are now tracking the next hike in Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR), which is due to be announced soon. Although the hike will be effective from July 2025, the actual credit of revised salaries typically…
TCS layoffs: The move to cut its staff strength also comes at a time when TCS is facing resistance for its changed bench policy. (AI image) TCS layoffs: India’s largest IT services exporter, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), on Sunday announced that it plans to lay off 2% of its workforce over the year. This decision…
8th Pay Commission news: As the central government has begun consultations with key stakeholders, including the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Home Affairs, Department of Personnel and Training, and state governments, as part of the process to constitute the 8th Central Pay Commission (CPC) to revise pay structures for nearly 50 lakh central government employees…