Not an employee. No Employer. No fixed working hours. Unlimited Income. Work flexibility. Freedom to work or not on any given day. These are the apparent and enviable characteristics of a gig worker. A utopian situation indeed! But the details show there is more to it than meets the eye.
Employee attrition in private sector banks has witnessed an increase to about 25 per cent, RBI said in a report. It highlighted that this high turnover rate poses significant operational risk.
Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena workers barged into the South Mumbai office of a company on Friday and took to task a Bihari manager who used to allegedly mentally harass a Maharashtrian employee and kept saying "Ek Bihari sab pe bhaari" (one Bihari is enough to dominate everybody).
At least 24 domestic startups secured more than $229 million in funding this week, which included six growth-stage deals worth $182.65 million.
One of the biggest ever cyber fraud cases in the history of Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) has been registered by a former bank employee of about Rs 1.35 crore.
In tales of yore, there was always a Bahadur, at some level, accompanying Sahib Bahadur on his exploits. Though Sahib, now renamed as Boss, may star in office anecdotes, but Bahadur, or his modern avatar, is almost always missing ~ Boss has to do everything alone.
Late Prabhunath Mishra, against whom the case was lodged, had an altercation with two MBBS girl students of Ayodhya Medical College on July 29.
In a similar incident, a house maid allegedly took away jewelry, in a bid to sell it off and buy a DSLR camera for making social media content.
The union said on Saturday its members have voted to accept a tentative wage deal reached earlier in the week.
I was not familiar with the concept of “layoff” when I was in India. My father used to work in a jute mill and occasionally faced “lock outs” which meant that gates of the mill were locked by the company and no employee was allowed to enter the premises and work; they did not get paid either.
