Public Sector Workers

Microsoft will not raise salaries for full-time employees this year and is reducing budget for bonuses and stock awards, Insider reported on Wednesday, citing an internal email by CEO Satya Nadella. In January, Microsoft said it would let go of 10,000 workers, adding to the tens of thousands layoffs announced before that across the technology secto...

Foxconn's iPhone factory in Zhengzhou may say retired soldiers and government workers as employers soon as the local authorities in China's Henan province are urging them to take on stints at the iPhone manufacturing facility, as per Shanghai Securities News. Foxconn declined to comment on the hiring schemes.

Thousands of shops, schools and businesses closed on Friday as public and private sector workers in Sri Lanka went on strike, demanding the president and the government step down for their mishandling of the island's worst financial crisis.

The bill proposed by Goulart looks forward to a new law that allows all the workers to an open option where they can seek remuneration in cryptocurrencies from their employers, but only provided there's a mutual agreement in place between the employeer and employee.

COVID-19 vaccine will be first given to about one crore health workers from both the public and private sectors, and then to about two crore front-line workers, the Union Health Ministry said in its presentation at the all-party meet today, sources said.

Navid Afkari was executed at a prison in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, something the IOC said was "very sad news".

The ICMR on Tuesday advised authorities to help all government and private hospitals, and public sector units, among others, to conduct antibody-based COVID-19 tests to allay concerns of healthcare workers and employees.

A pan-India workers' group affiliated to the BJP's ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has criticised the government's policy announcements on eight key sectors on Saturday as heavy on privatisation, which could lead to job cuts. The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh said the "public sector played a crucial role" amid the coronavirus pandemi...

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, which was in the news recently with debates over whether the public sector company was denied an offset contract under the Rafale fighter jets deal with France, is now facing an internal challenge with employees staging protests from Tuesday for what they say are unfair wages.

Crossing rivers barefoot, wading through jungles just sanitised by the accompanying security personnel and even airdropped by choppers into the Naxal-affected interiors, many on poll duty in Chhattisgarh feel like the real-life version of the protagonist from Bollywood dark comedy "Newton", while some feel more like a revolutionary like Bhagat Sing...

The Trump administration has assured lawmakers and the American corporate sector that the public would get an opportunity to respond to its proposal of revoking work authorisation to H-4 spouse visas after they raised their concerns over the move, which will impact thousands of Indians.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sent notices to the centre and the chairman of the public sector company, SAIL, over the death of 11 workers in a blast at the steel major's Bhilai plant in Chhattisgarh.

Tens of thousands of nurses, teachers and other public sector workers joined forces to march against French President Emmanuel Macron's reforms on Thursday, causing widespread travel disruption and bringing brief clashes with police in some cities.

Millions of Chinese public sector workers will be exposed to the harsh policing tactics of the Communist Party as President Xi Jinping brings his corruption crackdown to China's sprawling bureaucracy.

The United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) is an umbrella body of nine unions, including All India Bank Officers' Confederation (AIBOC), All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) and National Organisation of Bank Workers (NOBW).

Microsoft will not raise salaries for full-time employees this year and is reducing budget for bonuses and stock awards, Insider reported on Wednesday, citing an internal email by CEO Satya Nadella. In January, Microsoft said it would let go of 10,000 workers, adding to the tens of thousands layoffs announced before that across the technology secto...

Foxconn's iPhone factory in Zhengzhou may say retired soldiers and government workers as employers soon as the local authorities in China's Henan province are urging them to take on stints at the iPhone manufacturing facility, as per Shanghai Securities News. Foxconn declined to comment on the hiring schemes.

Thousands of shops, schools and businesses closed on Friday as public and private sector workers in Sri Lanka went on strike, demanding the president and the government step down for their mishandling of the island's worst financial crisis.

The bill proposed by Goulart looks forward to a new law that allows all the workers to an open option where they can seek remuneration in cryptocurrencies from their employers, but only provided there's a mutual agreement in place between the employeer and employee.

COVID-19 vaccine will be first given to about one crore health workers from both the public and private sectors, and then to about two crore front-line workers, the Union Health Ministry said in its presentation at the all-party meet today, sources said.

Navid Afkari was executed at a prison in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, something the IOC said was "very sad news".

The ICMR on Tuesday advised authorities to help all government and private hospitals, and public sector units, among others, to conduct antibody-based COVID-19 tests to allay concerns of healthcare workers and employees.

A pan-India workers' group affiliated to the BJP's ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has criticised the government's policy announcements on eight key sectors on Saturday as heavy on privatisation, which could lead to job cuts. The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh said the "public sector played a crucial role" amid the coronavirus pandemi...

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, which was in the news recently with debates over whether the public sector company was denied an offset contract under the Rafale fighter jets deal with France, is now facing an internal challenge with employees staging protests from Tuesday for what they say are unfair wages.

Crossing rivers barefoot, wading through jungles just sanitised by the accompanying security personnel and even airdropped by choppers into the Naxal-affected interiors, many on poll duty in Chhattisgarh feel like the real-life version of the protagonist from Bollywood dark comedy "Newton", while some feel more like a revolutionary like Bhagat Sing...

The Trump administration has assured lawmakers and the American corporate sector that the public would get an opportunity to respond to its proposal of revoking work authorisation to H-4 spouse visas after they raised their concerns over the move, which will impact thousands of Indians.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sent notices to the centre and the chairman of the public sector company, SAIL, over the death of 11 workers in a blast at the steel major's Bhilai plant in Chhattisgarh.

Tens of thousands of nurses, teachers and other public sector workers joined forces to march against French President Emmanuel Macron's reforms on Thursday, causing widespread travel disruption and bringing brief clashes with police in some cities.

Millions of Chinese public sector workers will be exposed to the harsh policing tactics of the Communist Party as President Xi Jinping brings his corruption crackdown to China's sprawling bureaucracy.

The United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) is an umbrella body of nine unions, including All India Bank Officers' Confederation (AIBOC), All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) and National Organisation of Bank Workers (NOBW).