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If you wanted to know everything about leaves, its rules, applicability in Factories or in establishments governed by the Shops and Establishments Act of each State, here it is. A compilation of Leave Rules for ready reference and implementation – http://www.hrindya.com/hr-managers-toolkit/leave-rules/

Employee Provident Fund Organization has introduced a new PF returns software that can be installed by all employers and by keying in data all the required returns can be generated.
Check out the link – http://www.epfindia.com/Employers_eReturn.htm

The Ministry of Heavy Industries in looking to revive some of its sick PSU’s. Adverse working conditions and lack of motivation are seen as some of reasons for their poor performance. The 54 sick PSUs posted combined losses of 14,424 crore in 2008-09, a 40% increase over the previous year. West Bengal-based Eastern Coalfields recorded [...]

While Indians turn out to be hard workers, they seem to be earning more than what they legally should be. The Political & Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd (PERC) conducted a survey of corruption levels in countries and placed them on the scale of 1 to 10 where 10 being the most corrupt. India managed to [...]

Indians put in an average of 8.1 hrs of work per day which is higher than the average of  UK, Australia, France, Germany and Italy. But the average falls less that the average working hours in US, China and Japan. Now, the workaholics are in Mexico who work an average 10 hrs a day!! Belgium [...]

Goa has become the first State in the country to roll out an unemployment allowance. This scheme would be applicable only to the unemployed undergraduates of the State who have registered with the employment exchange. The allowance would be a maximum of Rs. 1200 for those who have competed their 12th Standard and a lower [...]

Nokia’s decision to strategically move to Microsoft from its present operating platform of Symbian could be a cause of anxiety for many of the Engineers working in Nokia across the world. Many employees already feel cheated by Nokia’s decision. The affected are mostly going to be engineers working in the R&D Departments.
But news is that a few engineers working on [...]

General Motors had to be bailed out by the US Government in 2008 and 2009 to remain in business. This year the 26K strong workforce of GM in Detroit is expected to get Bonus in the range of 4% to 16%.
This is interesting not only for reason that General Motors has turned around its financials [...]

If reports were to be believed, EPFO has already digitized 113 of its Offices and work is pending at 7 other offices and is expected be completed by this March end. From then on PF details of employees pertaining to PF transfers and settlements would be available online and also on your mobile handsets.
With the [...]