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India one of the most corrupt countries

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 [...]

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Indians put in 8.1 hrs of work per day

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 [...]

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9 out of 10 Indians ready to relocate for right job

A research conducted by Kelly Services shows that 90% of working Indians surveyed are willing to relocate within the country or move out of India for the right job. Of them about 50% per cent were prepared to relocate to another country or continent and about [...]

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Starting 01-04-2011, no interest for dead PF acounts

Employee PF organization will not pay interest on EPF accounts in which no transaction have been made for last 3 years, starting this 1st April 2011.

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More recruitment

Employment everywhere.
Malaysia intents to recruit 45,000 workers and most of them are expected to be from India.
The Defence Minister, Mr. A.K. Antony too has announced better employment prospects for Indian women in the armed forces.

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2500 Contract Labour services regularized

Contract Labour engaged for years now have their services regularized by the Electricity Minister Arcot N. Veeraswamy. Around 2500 contract labour were regularized in four phases.

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Worker beaten to death for demanding full wages

Bokaro District, Jharkhand – A Contractor reportedly manhandled his worker so badly that he succumbed to his injuries. The fault of the worker – having demanded minimum wages of Rs. 120 as per Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme but the Contractor was willing to pay only Rs. 80.

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Plans for new health insurance for poor

The Labour Department is expecting an influx of Rs. 1300 crore to cater to needs of unorganized sector and also proposes a health insurance plan for the poor.

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75K apply for Google

Google announced that they would be hiring around 6000 new recruits worldwide and what poured in broke all their previous records with 75,000 job applications in a week.

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LG Electronics pays upto 700% in Bonus

LG Lectronics pays bonus to its 4500+ employees 6 times in a year calculated on the business performance and individual performance and the total quantum of payment is in the range of 200% to 700% of the Basic pay.

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