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  • 15 JAN-2017

    Amazon India to create over 7500 temporary jobs before 'Great India Sale'

    Positions will mostly be in logistics to ensure smooth deliveries.
    With the sale season hitting, Amazon India is going to create over 7500 temporary jobs. Most of these positions will be in logistics to ensure smooth deliveries during the upcoming sale from January 20–22.
    Akhil Saxena, vice president - India customer fulfilment, at Amazon India, mentioned that the company has opened more than 7500 seasonal roles for its upcoming Great Indian Sale. These roles will be available at 27 fulfilment centres, over 100 delivery stations and close to 15 sort centres across the country.
    He highlighted that throughout the year, Amazon.in generates thousands of seasonal jobs, as well as opportunities for long-term career development.
    He also shared that the recruitment for seasonal roles is now underway and recruits will be trained for the upcoming sale. Locked in an intense battle for leadership in the Indian e-commerce market, with local rivals, such as Flipkart and Snapdeal, Amazon.in has aggressively invested in expanding its infrastructure and delivery capabilities.
    The company has invested in six new fulfilment centres (FCs) last year, taking the total number of operational FCs to 27 in 10 states.
    Amazon’s infrastructure helps thousands of sellers reach millions of new customers across the country. It also enables Amazon.in to offer faster and quicker delivery of products to more pin codes.
    The US-based Amazon has committed investments worth over USD 5 billion for its India operations.
  • 12 DEC-2016

    Demonetisation creates jobs for 71,000 sales professionals & 2,000 engineers

    Demonetisation has already started showing its effect. No, we aren’t talking about the black money. It has created jobs for around 71,000 sales professionals and more than 2,000 engineers.
    The fact is that demonetisation has added a sudden spurt to the mobile payment or e-wallet industry. To be able to match up to this demand and the increasing business volumes, immediate hiring is on a top agenda for these players.
    PayTM, which is a leading player in the mobile-payment sector, needs to expand its reach in 650 districts across India. This implies that it will need to hire over 20,000 sales professionals and around 1,000 engineers.
    Similarly, Oxigen Wallets has an immediate mandate to hire 50,000 agents at the secondary level for marketing and sales.
    The company also plans to hire close to 200 engineers for tech support and 500 for supervising the agents in the short term, to manage the increasing traction.
    Mobikwik is yet another country in this space that plans to hire more than 100 engineers from campuses and will add over 1,000 persons to their sales force.
    Though the human resources teams in these companies are working round-the-clock to recruit people, and would want them to start as soon as possible, the biggest challenge is to train these new workers and make them job-ready.
  • 10 JAN-2017

    100s of journalists’ jobs at stake: Hindustan Times plans to shut multiple editions

    Last week, the English daily discontinued its business bureau in Delhi and Mumbai and syndicated the same to Mint.
    As per several media reports, Hindustan Times is also set to close down multiple editions, including Kolkata, Ranchi, Bhopal and Indore. It is learnt that the No. 2 English daily of the country has already discontinued all these four editions starting Monday, January 9.
    This implies that the fate of the journalists who were part of these editions is still uncertain.
    In addition, the newspaper has apparently closed down three bureaus in UP — Allahabad, Varanasi and Kanpur. This is indeed a surprising move as the UP elections are just a few months away.
    Last week, the English daily discontinued its business bureau in Delhi and Mumbai and the same was syndicated to its business daily, Mint. It is learnt that the retrenched journalists were given a severance package of two months.
    In a circular disseminated to its employees, HT said, “Post our major investments into a digital future and creation of an ultra-modern and hi-tech newsroom in Delhi, backed by an enormous effort to culturally transform our ways of meeting the changing consumption trends, we are now shifting gears to move towards an accelerated digital trajectory.”
    The retrenchment follows a cost-cutting advice by the Boston Consulting Group.
    This is yet another case of the newspaper business apparently getting hit by demonetisation. Last month, Kolkata-based Ananda Bazaar Patrika reduced its staff by 40 per cent following the advice of a consultant, Hey Consultancy.
    Even BCCL’s leading dailies—The Times of India and The Economic Times—have announced a freeze in hiring, and hinted low increments.
  • 04 JAN-2017

    Companies which had not earlier enrolled their employees under the EPF scheme can now do so, against payment of a minimal damage fee of Re 1 per year of default.

    The Employee Provident Fund (EPF) scheme is for the good of people and hence the government has made efforts to keep it mandatory. In what may further ensure full participation from both workers and employers, companies which had not earlier enrolled their employees under the EPF scheme can now do so, against payment of a minimal damage fee of Re 1 per year of default.
    Moreover, if an employee wasn't enrolled earlier and his/her share of contribution was not deducted from salary, the employer company had to pay this sum also in addition to the past defaults of its own contribution. However, now under the amnesty scheme, only the employer's contribution has to be deposited.
    The objective of the amnesty is to ensure enrolment of employees and spread the benefit of the EPF scheme. Companies having 20 or more employees are required to mandatorily enrol those employees under the EPF scheme who have a salary of up to Rs 15,000 per month. Additionally, the EPF scheme is optional for those drawing a higher salary. However, once an employee opts for the scheme, he or she cannot opt out.
    As per the scheme, both the employer and employee are required to contribute 12 percent per month towards EPF against the employee's basic salary plus dearness allowance. However, under the amnesty, interest at the rate of 12 percent on the amount due for delayed deposit of the contribution will be payable for the period of delay.
    This scheme, which has come into force from January 1, is open until March-end. The main purpose of the amnesty is to expand coverage of the EPF scheme. A huge amount of EPF dues is to be paid as arrears. More than a lakh employers had not deposited PF contributions and the arrears outstanding as of March 31, 2015 was nearly Rs 3,000 crore.
    After depositing the sums, a detailed return has to be filed with the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner. Employers are eligible to participate in the amnesty only if proceedings under section 7A (inquiries) have not already commenced against them.
    However, it is not clear whether the amnesty scheme will cover cases where employees had been enrolled in the EPF scheme but where there was a shortfall in depositing contributions.
  • 10 JAN-2017

    The state labour department has imposed a monthly penalty of Rs 50,000 for five years on the accused after the company’s internal committee failed to act on the complaint.

    Sexual harassment at the workplace in any form – be it abuse or assault or even inappropriate remarks – should be punished strongly. In a case filed by a Bengaluru woman against a senior executive from her company, who sexually assaulted her, the state labour department has imposed a monthly penalty of Rs 50,000 for five years on the accused senior manager of a software company.
    The woman, a former employee of I P Infusion Software in Mahadevapura in Bengaluru, had said she was sexually harassed by Bharat Chandrashekhar, senior manager (HR), while she was in service. She appealed to the labour department after the company's internal complaints committee supressed her petition.
    The woman reportedly complained that Chandrashekhar had commented on the colour of her nail polish and tried touching her fingers inappropriately. In addition, once referring to a job applicant, Chandrashekhar had allegedly said the person was interested in joining the company because he had seen the complainant and got attracted to her.
    In this case, the labour department has also directed the company not to promote him or give him any hike for the next three years. The additional labour commissioner, who is the appellate authority, has held the company responsible for the violation and asked it to pay monetary compensation to the woman.
    T Srinivas, additional labour commissioner, directed the company to hold back Chandrashekhar's annual salary increment and other monetary benefits for three years from 1 January, 2017. He directed the company to deduct Rs 50,000 from Chandrasekhar's salary every month, for 60 months, and pay the same to the complainant.
    In case Chandrashekhar leaves the company, then the amount will be deducted from the money payable by the company to him and the same will be paid to her. And if the company fails to do so, then it will have to pay the amount to the petitioner on its own, as per the order of the state department.
    Holding the company guilty of creating an atmosphere conducive to sexual harassment, the appellate authority ruled that under the provision of the Prevention of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2013, the company management has to pay her Rs 4,80,000 towards her monthly salary between September, 2015 and December, 2016.
    The complainant was drawing a monthly salary of Rs 30,000 when she was relieved of her duties in 2015. The woman had filed a petition before the company's internal complaints committee, which dismissed her petition in July, 2015. She then moved the appellate authority in October, 2016.