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Crisis-hit edtech star Byju'shas resumed paying salaries to its staff after a two-month delay despite being barred from using the proceeds of its recently floated rights issue, reports suggest.

Denial of maternity benefits to a female employee is inhumane and against the principles of social justice as well as her fundamental rights as it stands in the way of her choice to bring life into the world, the Delhi High Court has said.

Twitter laid off half its workforce on Friday. The company said there were smaller in the team responsible for preventing the spread of misinformation. Teams responsible for communications, content curation, human rights and machine learning ethics were laid off, as confirmed by tweets. However, Elon Musk said he had no choice as “the company is ...

Tinder parent firm Match on Tuesday reported that its revenue grew 6 percent and its paying users jumped 7 percent, aided by the return of a feature that lets users swipe right and left from their desktops. However, Match has predicted that Tinder's growth will be flat in the fourth quarter of the year, warning that a weakening global economy was h...

Microsoft President Brad Smith on Wednesday said that thousands of businesses would fail to meet pledges to combat climate change, if they did not train employees on sustainability. While Microsoft itself has grown its sustainability headcount to about 250 employees from only 30 largely in the past three years, having the right workforce to deliver...

Microsoft has agreed for a labour neutrality agreement with Communications Workers of America (CWA) to allow employees to make fair choice about union representation. The company President Brad Smith earlier said that Microsoft will not resist unionization efforts from its employees.

Microsoft has recently announced that the company will cease enforcing existing non-compete clauses for the employees in the United States. The software firm has also committed to conduct a civil rights audit of its workforce policies in 2023.

Uber has announced a fresh round of recruitment for its India tech centres and plans to hire 500 additional tech employees by December 2022. The hiring will happen across its centres in Hyderabad and Bengaluru.

BharatPe has initiated necessary action against former founder. The company intends to ‘claw back’ restricted shared of the former founder after internal governance review. BharatPe pledges to enforce its right under the law

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann accused PM Narendra Modi of "robbing" the state of its rights amid a political row over Union Home Minister Amit Shah's recent announcement that central service rules will apply to employees of Chandigarh.

The Punjab government will fight strongly for its "rightful claim over Chandigarh", Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said in his public reaction to Union Home Minister Amit Shah's announcement that employees of the Chandigarh Union Territory administrati

Apple's shareholders have approved a proposal urging the iPhone maker to undergo an independent audit assessing its treatment of female and minority employees, delivering a rare rebuke to a management team that runs the world's most valuable company.

TikTok and one of its employees on Monday separately sued US President Donald Trump's administration over his executive order banning transactions in the United States with the popular short-form video-sharing app, calling it a pretext to fuel anti-China rhetoric as he seeks re-election.

IndiGo will lay off 10 per cent of its staff as the coronavirus pandemic has forced it to re-evaluate its "best-laid plans", the airline's CEO Ronojoy Dutta, said on Monday. IndiGo had "understood the gravity of the situation right at the start of this crisis", he said, as the the country's largest carrier grapples with declining revenues due to th...

The US units of China Telecom and China Unicom urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) not to revoke the company's nearly two-decade old authorisation to provide international telecommunications services to and from the United States.

Crisis-hit edtech star Byju'shas resumed paying salaries to its staff after a two-month delay despite being barred from using the proceeds of its recently floated rights issue, reports suggest.

Denial of maternity benefits to a female employee is inhumane and against the principles of social justice as well as her fundamental rights as it stands in the way of her choice to bring life into the world, the Delhi High Court has said.

Twitter laid off half its workforce on Friday. The company said there were smaller in the team responsible for preventing the spread of misinformation. Teams responsible for communications, content curation, human rights and machine learning ethics were laid off, as confirmed by tweets. However, Elon Musk said he had no choice as “the company is ...

Tinder parent firm Match on Tuesday reported that its revenue grew 6 percent and its paying users jumped 7 percent, aided by the return of a feature that lets users swipe right and left from their desktops. However, Match has predicted that Tinder's growth will be flat in the fourth quarter of the year, warning that a weakening global economy was h...

Microsoft President Brad Smith on Wednesday said that thousands of businesses would fail to meet pledges to combat climate change, if they did not train employees on sustainability. While Microsoft itself has grown its sustainability headcount to about 250 employees from only 30 largely in the past three years, having the right workforce to deliver...

Microsoft has agreed for a labour neutrality agreement with Communications Workers of America (CWA) to allow employees to make fair choice about union representation. The company President Brad Smith earlier said that Microsoft will not resist unionization efforts from its employees.

Microsoft has recently announced that the company will cease enforcing existing non-compete clauses for the employees in the United States. The software firm has also committed to conduct a civil rights audit of its workforce policies in 2023.

Uber has announced a fresh round of recruitment for its India tech centres and plans to hire 500 additional tech employees by December 2022. The hiring will happen across its centres in Hyderabad and Bengaluru.

BharatPe has initiated necessary action against former founder. The company intends to ‘claw back’ restricted shared of the former founder after internal governance review. BharatPe pledges to enforce its right under the law

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann accused PM Narendra Modi of "robbing" the state of its rights amid a political row over Union Home Minister Amit Shah's recent announcement that central service rules will apply to employees of Chandigarh.

The Punjab government will fight strongly for its "rightful claim over Chandigarh", Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said in his public reaction to Union Home Minister Amit Shah's announcement that employees of the Chandigarh Union Territory administrati

Apple's shareholders have approved a proposal urging the iPhone maker to undergo an independent audit assessing its treatment of female and minority employees, delivering a rare rebuke to a management team that runs the world's most valuable company.

TikTok and one of its employees on Monday separately sued US President Donald Trump's administration over his executive order banning transactions in the United States with the popular short-form video-sharing app, calling it a pretext to fuel anti-China rhetoric as he seeks re-election.

IndiGo will lay off 10 per cent of its staff as the coronavirus pandemic has forced it to re-evaluate its "best-laid plans", the airline's CEO Ronojoy Dutta, said on Monday. IndiGo had "understood the gravity of the situation right at the start of this crisis", he said, as the the country's largest carrier grapples with declining revenues due to th...

The US units of China Telecom and China Unicom urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) not to revoke the company's nearly two-decade old authorisation to provide international telecommunications services to and from the United States.