1.
Unpaid
salaries for MeECL employees and SSA teachers, Meghalaya
Meghalaya Energy
Corporation Limited (MeECL) staff as well as SSA teachers in Meghalaya are
agitating because their salaries have not been paid for the past several months.
Members
of the Meghalaya Energy Corporation’s (MeECL) Coordination Committee of
Registered MeECL (Employee) Associations and Unions (CCORMAU) are threatening
to resort to countermeasures over their pending salaries for October and
November, if it’s not cleared by the authorities by December 14. On the other
hand, for the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) teachers of Meghalaya, the salaries
have been pending since the past five months. The CCORMAU members are
threatening to go on a hunger strike on December 16 and 17, if their pending
wages are not released by December 14. Employees are ready to voluntarily
participate in the strike. Further on December 21, officers and the staff of
CCORMAU will abstain from attending to maintenance work and complaints from 10
AM to 4.30 PM except for the emergency services, such as health and security.
The union has also threatened to go on mass casual leave if the salary of
December 2020 is not cleared by January 10, 2021.
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2.
ISRO looking for
research scientists
Vacancies have been announced for two
research scientists at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre. Applications
are invited from interested candidates by the Indian Space Research
Organisation’s (ISRO) Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) to fill two posts of
research scientists. The last date for applyingfor these contractual positions
is is December 17, 2020 until 5 PM IST. The selected candidates will be hired
for a period of three years, with a salary of Rs 74,000. Only those who have
completed an MSc in either meteorology or atmospheric sciences with first class
distinction may apply. A minimum aggregate of 65 per cent marks or GPA/CPI
grading of a minimum 6.84 is mandatory.
3.
Apple,
Facebook to continue WFH for most employees until June, 2021
Both
companies plan not to call employees back to office until the middle of next
year, with Facebook thinking of implementing permanent WFH. Apple has
no plans of calling its employees back to office before June 2021 as the
pandemic shows no signs of slowing down, leave alone vanish. Facebook will also
call back its employees during the same time, and has shared that vaccination
will not be a precondition for returning to office. Apple hasn’t mentioned
whether it expects its employees to be vaccinated before returning to office.
Even though the news of vaccines is doing the rounds, it is to be seen whether
companies will make it mandatory for employees to be vaccinated before
returning to office, especially at a time when most, including Facebook, are
seriously considering WFH as a permanent option.
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