HR News: 06 June, 2017

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Google, Mercedez-Benz, Amazon, ITC, Philips India’s most ‘attractive employer’: Randstad Awards

Competitive salary and employee benefits continue to be the top priority among the Indian workforce, while choosing an employer, followed by good work–life balance.

Google India has been named the most ‘attractive employer brand’, followed by Mercedes-Benz India, according to the Randstad’s Employer Brand Research 2017. In addition, the sectoral-specific winners for the most attractive employers this year are Amazon India for e-commerce, ITC Limited for FMCG and Philips India for consumer and healthcare.
The Randstad Award, instituted globally, is hosted each year to encourage best practices for talent attraction and to identify the best ‘Employer Brand’ in the country based on the perceived awareness and attractiveness of a company. In India this year, the Randstad Employer Brand Research captured the views of around 3500 respondents, who chose the nation’s most attractive employer brand for 2017.

Randstad’s research covering 26 countries and over 1,65,000 respondents worldwide, clearly reflects that this year too, salary and employee benefits continue to be the top drivers among the Indian workforce, across all profiles, while choosing an employer. This is followed by good work–life balance and job security. However, for the IT professionals, good work–life balance emerged as the top priority while choosing an employer. It is interesting to note that the importance accorded to good work–life balance has increased considerably across all work profiles, with this attribute moving up to Rank II from Rank V, as per last year’s findings.

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NEIL helps women get ‘Back on Track’ after a break

With multiple technical and non-technical opportunities, the company is inviting applications from women professionals under the programme.NEIL helps women get ‘Back on Track’ after a break.
National Engineering Industries (NEIL), a CK Birla Group company, just launched a programme creating opportunities for women to come back into the workplace after career breaks. 
The programme, aptly called ‘Back on Track’, aims to bring back the careers, of women who have been on a break, back on track again. The programme is looking to recruit a good number of women on career breaks into various management roles over the next three years.
An official communiqué  stated, “Under this exclusive ‘women returning to work programme’, we are encouraging women, who are on sabbatical, to put their careers back on track.”
With multiple openings for technical and non-technical roles, the company is inviting applications from women professionals under this new initiative. It is also looking to hire women employees from tier II and III cities, in an endeavour to increase the representation of women across all functions and locations.

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EPFO to further simplify its process; no supporting document required for advance withdrawal

In a bid to increase social security and enhance worker awareness EPFO has taken significant measures to provide more benefits to members and ease the withdrawal process.

It was always our hard-earned money. Even then withdrawing money from the PF account or closing an account was always a cumbersome exercise.

In the last few years, Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has taken several steps to make the scheme more convenient and beneficial for the depositors. It is now working to simplify the process even further.

The Ministry of Labour & Employment has recently announced that EPF members/depositors will only need to submit a self-declaration for advance withdrawal in case of illness of members/dependents. Even for differently-abled members, withdrawal can be done on the basis of self-declaration. This self-declaration form is included in the composite claim form.

As was the practice earlier, the depositor will no longer be required to submit a medical certificate or any other certificate, document or proforma whatsoever, to avail advances under paragraph 68-J or under paragraph 68-N of the EPF Scheme 1952.