HR Movement: 11 Nov, 2022

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Vipul Dave takes charge as VP-HR at Jindal Poly Films

With this appointment, Dave moves back to the plastic manufacturing and packaging industry. Jindal Poly Films, a part of BC Jindal Group, has roped in Vipul Dave as the VP-HR. In this role, he will lead the HR for BC Jindal’s plastic manufacturing unit. With more than two decades of experience in HR, Dave moves to Jindal Poly Films from Liberty Steel Group, a steel manufacturing firm headquartered in the UK, where he served as the CHRO for close to two years. Dave has spent a significant chunk of his two-decade long career in the manufacturing sector for known brands around the world. In the initial stage of his career, Dave worked with JK Paper as assistant manager – HR for almost three years and spent more than four years with Reliance Industries honing his skills in HR. It was in 2006 that he joined Oracle as the head of HR for PeopleSoft, the HR solutions business of Oracle.

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Coca Cola names Karan Bhalla as HR director – Eurasia & Middle East

Bhalla has worked across multiple sectors in his 17-year long career, from IT, technology and consulting to food and beverages. Karan Bhalla has taken charge as the new HR director for Eurasia and Middle East at The Coca Cola Company. Bhalla joins Coca Cola from Americana Foods, a food and beverages firm in the Middle East. He worked with Americana Foods for more than a year as its HR director – talent, rewards and culture. In his new assignment at Coca Cola, Bhalla will be based out of Dubai in UAE. After working for more than 16 years in India with big brands, Bhalla moved to Dubai when he joined Americana Foods. After completing an MBA in HR from Institute Of Management and Technology (IMT), Bhalla started his career in the IT and tech industry.

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WOW Skin Science ropes in Smriti Khanna as VP-HR

Khanna is an alumna of XLRI. WOW Skin Science, a direct to consumer brand in the beauty and wellness products space has appointed Smriti Khanna as its new VP-HR. In this role, Khanna will lead the HR function for the Company, which will include responsibilities such as devising people strategies, strengthening WOW’s organisational culture, employer branding, performance and people development. Khanna comes with close to nine years of experience in HR. She is a young HR leader and an alumna of XLRI. After completing her post graduate diploma in HR, Khanna started her career with Airtel.

HR News: 11 Nov, 2022

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‘Draw a plan for KSRTC salary payments’: Kerala HC tells state govt

Employees have been demanding that their salaries be paid before the 5th of every month. The Government of has received orders from the Kerala High Court to create a plan that will ensure that the salaries of the employees of Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) are paid to them on time every month. The single bench comprising Justice Devan Ramachandran observed that till KSRTC manages to settle all its loans and pending dues, it cannot become self-sufficent. However, he did hope that in the future KSRTC will at some point become self-sufficient after it has cleared all its pending commitments and be in a position to fulfil its own expenses. The employees were paid their salaries for October as assured by the Court to KSRTC. However, this was done with the financial aid and support of the state government in the form of almost Rs 50 crore.

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Unilever to start 4-day work week trial in Australia

The Company’s pilot in New Zealand has given great results over an 18-month period. The employees of Unilever in Australia will soon be part of a trial to study the effectiveness of a four-day work week. Starting 14 November 2022, all the 500 employees of the consumer goods company in Australia will work only for four days a week with no change in their pay. A similar trial by the Company in New Zealand that lasted from December 2020 to June 2022, gave very positive and encouraging results.

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Karnataka CM asks govt. staff to work 1 hr extra daily

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has appealed to all the state- government employees of Karnataka to work one hour extra daily. On 10 November, 2022 Bommai was speaking at an event where a delegation of Karnataka State Government Employees Association was facilitating him for constituting the 7th Pay Commission and implementing a revised pay scale for state government employees.

Bommai appealed to the employees to work an hour extra so that the State can develop fast and contribute to the larger dream of making India a $5 trillion economy. He specially emphasised on helping the poor, the downtrodden and the women in the State. Bommai urged that in the dream of making India a $5 trillion economy, Karnataka’s contribution should be about $1 trillion.

HR Learning: 4 Nov, 2022

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byteXL, Microsoft join hands to develop tech talent in Tier 2 & 3 cities

The ‘XLerate’ initiative supported by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will increase the employability quotient of students and also transform institutes by empowering them to produce quality industry-ready talent in the longer run. byteXL ? a Hyderabad-based experiential learning platform for those aspiring for IT careers ? has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft. This collaboration aims to transform educational institutes in Tier 2 and 3 cities across India and cater to the 360-degree developmental needs of its students. The pan-India initiative, called ‘XLerate’, supported by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), will impart training in new-age and emerging technologies. The tie-up is aligned with the national vision of providing one crore internship opportunities by 2025.

 

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Birlasoft tries to enhance & broaden employees’ knowledge base

The global enterprise digital and IT services company has tied up with an online learning platform to enable employees to grow in their career. Now, 12,500 employees of Biralasoft — the global enterprise digital and IT services company, which is part of the CK Birla Group — has partnered with an online learning platform to help its employees Learning forms an integral part of Birlasoft’s core values. The Company believes in cultivating a culture of continuous learning, aligned with the changing business environment. This partnership with the learning platform is expected to create an ecosystem where employees will feel encouraged to learn through structured interventions that cover skills related to technology, behavioural competencies, industry domains, and leadership capabilities.

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Is reinventing jobs easier said than done in an automated world?

The World Economic Forum states in its report that automation will eliminate 85 million jobs, but will also create 97 million more by 2030. Will reskilling people and deploying them in these new roles be easy. How do we humans perceive machines and robots? Either we see them as big threats or as great friends that will make our lives easier. There is no dearth of films and science fiction blockbusters that portray technology as either a destroyer or a great friend of humanity. This is also the hottest topic of debate in these times when organisations are moving towards automation and digitalisation, and people are apprehensive about the impact of the same on jobs. The report of the World Economic Forum, ‘Future of Jobs 2020’ states that by 2030, automation will displace 85 million jobs in the world. At the same time, however, new and exciting roles will also emerge.

HR Movement: 4 Nov, 2022

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Amit Kataria joins Minfy Technologies as CHRO

Kataria has over two decades of experience as HR in the IT sector. Minfy Technologies has named Amit Kataria as CHRO for its global business. Minfy is a cloud-native system integrator company headquartered in Hyderabad, with offices across the US, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and Australia. Kataria has moved in from Hanu Software where he spent close to 17 years. At Hanu, he rose up the ranks from assistant manager – HR to chief human resource officer. Backed by over two decades of experience, Kataria started his career with Motorola Solutions.

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Mastercard rejigs HR leadership

 

Joseph Fernandes elevated as SVP & Head, People & Capability, South Asia and Priti Singh moves to a larger role for leading the company’s People and Capability function for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Mastercard, the payment processing firm has announced a leadership change in the HR department. The company has elevated Joseph Fernandes as SVP & Head, People & Capability, South Asia and Priti Singh, who previously held this position for four years has moved on to a larger role for leading the company’s People and Capability function for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Fernandes joined Mastercard in 2017 and has been leading the HR for company’s tech hub in Pune as the VP-HR.

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Simpl ropes in Myntra’s Sneha Arora as CHRO

Arora, an alumna of TISS, was earlier the VP-HR at Myntra. Simpl ? a company that offers commerce solutions, which foster trust between merchants and buyers through transparency in payments ? has hired Sneha Arora as its chief human resource officer, to lead the HR function. Arora joins Simpl from Myntra where she was the VP-HR for more than two years. An alumna of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Arora started her career as a management trainee with Texas Instruments, a manufacturing firm which designs and manufactures semiconductors and various integrated circuits. During her four-year long tenure at Texas Instruments, she honed her skills in different facets of HR from university hiring to employer branding, talent development and business partnering. Her progress from being management trainee to talent-development manager gave her an opportunity to drive various learning and development (L&D) initiatives for high-potential leadership development and succession planning.

HR News: 4 Nov, 2022

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Lyft to reduce workforce by 13%

About 683 people may be let go as part of cost-cutting exercise. Nasdaq listed ride-hailing technology company Lyft Inc. has said that it will reduce its workforce by 13 per cent. This means around 683 people will lose their jobs. This was done to cut costs and deal with the unstable economy. The move by Lyft is expected to result in expenses in the range of $27 million and $32 million in the fourth quarter. Besides, it also laid off 60 employees in the month of July. “The announced reduction in force is a proactive step as part of the company’s annual planning to ensure the company is set up to accelerate execution and deliver strong business results in Q4 of 2022 and in 2023,” Lyft said in a statement.

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Deadline for joining EPF pension scheme extended by SC.

EPF members are no longer required to contribute 1.16% on the salary exceeding Rs 15,000 limit. The Supreme Court ruled that employees will be given six more months to opt to join the Employees’ Pension Scheme if they haven’t already joined it. Additionally, they will not have to contribute 1.16per cent on their salary exceeding the Rs 15,000 limit. The Court has declared invalid the condition in the 2014 scheme requiring employees to make a further contribution at the rate of 1.16 per cent on the salary that exceeds Rs 15,000 as an additional contribution. This condition has been held as ultra vires of the 1952 Act, as reported by LiveLaw. However, the judgment pertaining to this particular point is suspended for six months. This has been done so that concerned authorities have enough time to make adjustments in the scheme to be able to generate that additional contribution from other legitimate sources in compliance with the conditions of the Act.

 

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No fresh hiring at Amazon except for vacant & important posts

The Company intends to closely monitor the economic conditions for the next few months before lifting the freeze. Global technology company, Amazon has released an official memo informing that it will pause new incremental hires in its corporate workforce for the next few months. However, it has been clarified that meaningful hiring will continue only for posts rendered vacant due to resignations of employees, and also for important roles. Amazon is imposing the hiring freeze taking into account the uncertainty and unusual macro-economic conditions.

HR Club - HR Matrix Inter-Collegiate Events for the Year 2022-23

                                             

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HR Club - HR Matrix Events for the Year 2022-23 

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 IES’s Management College and Research Centre’s,

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Intra-collegiate Personality Assessment Workshop 

‘P-A-W’

RULES AND PROCEDURES FOR “P-A-W”–The HR Personality Assessment Workshop ‘P-A-W’

1.     IESMCRC HR Club, HR Matrix is organising ‘P-A-W’– HR Personality Assessment Workshop ‘P-A-W’.

2.     SCHEDULE:

9^th November at 1 to 1:30 PM (1^st Yr. Batch ‘22-24, All specialisations); Venue: Seminar Hall, 6^th Floor

10^th November at 1 to 1.30PM (2^nd Yr. Batch ’21-23, Pharma & PG-Mktg./BA/Fin. specialisations); Venue: Seminar Hall, 6^th Floor /

11^th November (2^nd Yr. Batch ’21-23 HR specialisation); Venue: Classroom 305

3.     The Personality cards will be given on that day and date.

4.     The submission is to be provided on that day in that time, by the participant.

5.     All students with ies.edu email ids, will be eligible for participation.

6.     The starting date is on point no. 2. So be present and await your results on 23rd November 2022.

7.     The results will be announced by email individually to participants on 23rd November 2022.

8.     In the results,

a.      1^st Yr. students will be guided as to which specialization either of HR/ Marketing/ Finance/ Operations/ IT is suited for them.

b.     2^nd Yr. students, guidance will be provided on the type of jobs best suited for them in related specialisations.

9.     All are encouraged to participate in this workshop using the Left/ Right Brain Dominance Tests to sharpen your career choices.

10.  Certificate of participation would be provided to each participant.

11.  The photo gallery of the event will feature in our blog <https://iesmcrc-hrclub.blogspot.com/> and social media sites.

Results would be declared on 23^rd Nov 2022. For any queries contact: hrclub@ies.edu

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