HR News: 23 Oct, 2017

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WB government adapts e-HRMS system

The objective is to bring in transparency and turn the entire process paperless.

The West Bengal government has introduced e-HRMS in all the departments of the state government. The manual process practiced in various offices of the state government will now be replaced by a web-based online system.

From July 1, all payments such as travel allowance, general provident fund and loans of employees will be managed through the online system. The new system will also enable an employee to access details about his salary and leaves online. 

The state government is stressing on making the system online for fast execution of work. In fact, it has also set up a separate e-governance department.

The state finance department had earlier issued a notification directing all the departments to "complete the mapping of stakeholders’ sub module" of the e-HRMS by May 22. But following request of different departments, the time has been extended till June 30.  

Since Jaitley is also looking after the Defence portfolio, he will leave for a four-day visit to Russia on June 20 which implies that he will not be present for the Cabinet meeting scheduled for Wednesday (June 21). He had to share proposals on allowance reforms mandated by the 7th Pay Commission, and modified later by the Committee on Allowances and Empowered Committee of Secretaries.

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Infosys gets into legal trouble in the US for favoring Indians

The company is accused of obsessional preference for employees of South Asian race and national origin, usually Indian.

A former Infosys employee, Erin Green, who was head of global immigration, has filed a legal suit accusing the company of discrimination and favoring Indians.
Green, who was terminated for violating Infosys' ‘code of conduct’ as he used his work computer for personal use a few years earlier, has filed a suit this week in the Eastern District of Texas in Sherman, alleging that he and black and white staffers on his team were denied raises and promotions and that other "non-South Asian" workers were berated by South Asian company officials.  

Green has alleged that in a company of 200,000 employees in the US, the predominance of Indians is not simply a product of meritocracy.

According to Green, neither he nor any black and white employees in his team were ever promoted, progressed, or given salary increases and it was only the careers of south Asians that progressed. 

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‘Google For Jobs’ yet another disruption in job matching

It will pull job listings from various sources across the internet and put them in the search result in a clean, relevant and informative way.

Google has rolled out its new job search feature called Google for Jobs in the US. Last month, at the company’s I/O conference, it had announced its plan of collaborating with career websites to list jobs in Google Search results. It will pull job listings from various sources across the internet and put them in the search result in a clean, relevant and informative way.

The aim is to help connect both the employer and the job seekers. Instead of searching scores of career sites for jobs, candidates can use a single window of Google Job Search to explore a wider range of filtered and curated jobs matching their interests.

During a keynote address at the company’s I/O conference, Sunder Pichai, CEO, Google, said, “The first step for many people when they start looking for a job is searching on Google. So we have built a new feature in Search with the goal that no matter who you are or what kind of job you are looking for, you can find the jobs that are right for you."