HR News: 2 Dec, 2022

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Marico prepares to hire people with career breaks

The Company has officially launched the ‘Pheonix’ programme to hire professionals who have had to take a break for some reason or the other. Inspired by some real-time stories at Marico, the Company has come up with the Phoenix programme which focuses on giving an opportunity to people who have had to take a career break due to some the other reason. Though Marico has been very open to hiring people with career breaks in the past, it is only now that it has come out with an official programme to streamline things. Marico has employees who have taken multiple breaks in their career. Rakhi Gupta (name changed) had to take multiple breaks in her career due to many reasons such as shifting to the US with her husband, childbirth and child’s health condition. Later, she unfortunately lost her husband at a time when she became a leader in a manufacturing setup. She was forced to take a break to take care of her own mental health and support her family. However, she joined Marico in a full-time consultant role and is content with her job, and the facilities and flexibility it gives her. To be the part of the Phoenix programme, a candidate needs to have a career break of a minimum of one year.

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Has FIS asked 400 Pune employees to leave?

Some employees of the American multinational have reportedly been told to not come to work till 30 December, their last date of working. Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Pune, the Indian arm of the American multinational fintech firm, is on a layoff spree, to deal with redundancy. Looks like the Company has already asked 400 of its employees to leave, and media reports say that more will be laid off in the weeks to come. Some employees have been told not to report for work till 30 December, which will be their last working day. he Company has offices in Bengaluru and Gurugram as well. The employees will be given severance of a month’s basic salary for each year of service they have completed with the firm, with the maximum limit being 12 months. This severance will be paid to them within five days of the date of separation.

 

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The blue collared industry has maximum job seekers in 18-30 age group: Report

Mumbai and Delhi accounts for 4.15% and 0.49% people aged between 18-31 and 31-40 applying for jobs. According to data shared by a blue-collar recruitment platform, top metropolitan cities like Mumbai and Delhi account for 4.15% and 0.49% people, applying for blue-collared jobs. Furthermore, these applicants are between the age group of 18-31(Delhi) and 31-40 (Mumbai) respectively. After the top two cities, maximum job application record is held by Pune at the third spot, Bangalore at the fourth, and Kolkata at fifth with 0.40%, 0.33%, and 0.24% respectively. Surprisingly, Lucknow, one of the largest states’ capitals, only witnessed 0.37% of people in the age group of 18-30 who have been applying for jobs. While, cities like Patna have been on the radar for hiring more than 10,000 people this year, Tier II cities like Mohali have zero records of receiving job applications, and Nasik just ahead with 0.2%.