HR Learning: 19 Oct, 2020

 

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How Trident incentivised learning for blue-collar employees

 

The Company has raised the monthly fixed pay as well as the variable. Ludhiana-based Trident Group, which is into manufacturing home textiles and paper, has decided to reward its blue-collar employees in a unique way. It has launched a programme under which the workers can learn and upskill themselves, and earn incentives after the completion of the programme. The Company’s blue-collar workers are called Karmayogis and they are segregated into two levels – IL1 and IL2. The monthly salary of the first level, IL1, was fixed at Rs 15,000 with an additional variable pay of Rs 3,000. Now the Company has raised the monthly fixed component to Rs 18,000 and at the same time raised the variable pay up to Rs 7,000, which the Company has termed as dignified earnings.

 

 

 

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Microsoft pools resources to help 25 mn people acquire new-age skills

People looking to reskill and pursue in-demand jobs will have free access to learning paths and content from LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn and the GitHubLearning Lab. In response to the global economic crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, Microsoft has announced a new global skills initiative, which aims to help bring digital skills to about 25 million people across the globe, by the end of 2020. With the entire world having made the leap to virtual, digital skills are going to be the most in-demand of the lot. In addition to helping people get access to new jobs, it is going to be an important step in accelerating economic growth. Combining existing and new resources from LinkedIn, GitHub and Microsoft, this new initiative will enable individuals looking to reskill and pursue in-demand jobs. This will involve use of data from the LinkedIn Economic Graph to identify in-demand jobs.

 

 

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IIT Kharagpur ties up with University of Alberta, Canada for JDP

 

The joint doctoral programme will offer research opportunities to students at the partner institutes for a period of six months to a year. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, has entered into a collaboration with the University of Alberta, Canada, in a bid to ensure a global reach and to engage actively and strategically in the post-COVID world. The tie-up will lead to the launch of a joint doctoral degree programme (JDP), which will encourage meaningful academic exchanges and learning opportunities between the academicians and students of India and Canada. Students will now be able to undertake research at the partner institute for a period of six to 12 months. As part of the collaboration, research projects will be identified for the students, provisions will be made for joint supervision, and aid will be provided in the form of fellowships and monthly stipends to help with the cost of food and lodging of the visiting students. It is expected that the coming together of students and faculty from different geographies, environments, and backgrounds, with exposure to myriad challenges, will add more meaning to the research. As a result, the research itself will be focussed more on global dynamics.