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Laszlo Bock, the former SVP of Google’s People Operations and author of the book “Work Rules!,” stated in a panel interview that most companies don’t know how to hold onto their best people. “People don’t stay for the money,” Bock said, noting that more than a third of Google’s first 100 employees are still working [...]

Of the thousands of songs downloaded, some heard and some still unheard, my car stereo randomly caught upon a song from its collection. The vocals seemed mellowed and it stuck to a tempo of a folk song with these lyrics -
Now, if you want higher wages let me tell you what to do
You got to [...]

Think of how the relationship between management of an organisation and the union of employees undergoes changes. All industrial relations managers would have experienced the ‘Form, Storm, Norm, Perform’ stages of building relations.
The latest organisation to experience this is Bajaj Auto. In a recent seminar Dilip Pawar (in pic), the articulate leader of Bajaj Auto [...]

No matter what your company, you’ve probably encountered organizational politics. One of the most frequent complaints is that ‘it is difficult to get things done because of this Office Politics !!!.
But is it really possible to put politics aside? Is there an organization in which everyone’s personal interests are perfectly aligned with functional, business unit, [...]

A survey was conducted by Towers Watson which provides interesting insights with implications in the Indian context too.
Watson Towers  - Who or what is?: Towers Watson is a leading global professional services company that helps organizations improve performance through effective people, risk and financial management.

Each year, Towers Watson explores the changing landscape of HR service [...]

An important bill that seeks to protect women, including domestic workers, from sexual harassment at workplace was passed in the Lok Sabha on 03-09-2012. The bill defines domestic worker as a woman employed to do household work for remuneration.
Sexual harassment includes any unwelcome act or behaviour such as physical contact and advances, a demand or [...]

This recent announcement of new perks to its employees would leave quite a few top notch companies thinking of ways to match this generosity. This is what is new at Google Inc; If an employee dies while in service –

Google will pay the surviving family 50% of the salary, once [...]

To reduce the number of rejections of PF settlements received by the PF Authorities, EPFO (Employees’ Provident Fund Organization) has now decided to accept the members Joint Bank Account for the purpose of PF settlement applied for by the member. The only condition set by the EPFO Authorities is that the account should be co-operated [...]

A renowned Advocate from an established Lawyer Firm shattered this assumption: The primary responsibility of payment of ESI and EPF contributions of the Contract Workers lies with the Contractor and the Principal Employer was only to ensure compliance by the Contractor.
It took sometime of convincing by the Advocate with facts laid down before me, that [...]

A male and female student of S. Vellaichamy Nadar College near Madurai were dismissed from the college for having travelled together in a public bus and for having exchanged ‘indecent’ SMS. Both the students challenged the dismissal through separate writ petitions in the Madurai High Court.
Justice V.Dhanapal set aside the 2 dismissal orders of the [...]