Prasheel Pardhe has joined BDx Data Centres as their global HR head. Prior to joining BDx Data Centres, Pardhe was associated with Trantor as chief people officer for more than two years. With over 20 years of experience leading and developing human resource departments in a variety of sectors...
Indraneel Kumar Das has joined Havells India as Jt. Vice President- HR. He has confirmed this development through a social media post. Prior to this appointment Indraneel was associated with Byju’s as AVP & Head- L&OD- Byjus Tuition Center for about two years. Also read: Sharmila Sherikar...
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Sharmila Sherikar Joins Sonata Software as Senior VP and Head of Corporate Development
September 06, 2023, Bengaluru: Sonata Software the leading Modernization Engineering company, has announced that Sharmila Sherikar has joined the organization as Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Development. Sharmila joins Sonata with more than three decades of industry experience in...
PTI: Private steel major Tata Steel announced a total payout of Rs 314.70 crore on account of annual bonus to employees for the year 2022-2023 following the signing of a Memorandum of Settlement with Tata Workers’ Union (TWU) here. As per the memorandum of settlement the total payout for...
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Appointment not to be denied because of suppression of material facts when the query of the employer is vague: SC
Supreme Court in State of West Bengal &Ors. vs. Mitul Kumar Jana [Civil Appeal No. 8510 of 2011] re-iterated the settled principle of law that for determining suppression or false information, the attestation/verification form has to be specific and not vague. The Court stated that only such...
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The burden of proof in disciplinary proceeding depends upon the nature of charge against the employee: SC
Supreme Court in State Bank of India vs. A.G.D. Reddy [Civil Appeal No. 11196 of 2011] held that the burden of proof in disciplinary proceedings depends on the specific nature of the charge leveled against the employee and the explanation provided by the employee. Further, the Court re-iterated the...
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Employee can access colleague’s service records under RTI Act to pursue service litigation: Karnataka HC
Karnataka High Court in AS Mallikarjunaswamy vs. State Information Commissioner &Ors. [Writ Petition No. 23695 of 2022] held that an employee who has filed an application under Section 8(1)(j) of the Right to Information Act, 2005 (“RTI Act”) is entitled to know the service...
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Uttering word ‘Gandi Aurat’ by superior to his female employee is not an offence of outraging the modesty of woman: Delhi High Court
Delhi High Court in Varun Bhatia vs. State &Anr. [Criminal Revision Petition No. 1032 of 2018] on August 28, 2023 examined the issue as to whether the utterance of the term ‘Gandi Aurat’ by a male against a female shall be amounted to a charge of outraging of her modesty, under...
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Place of employment would determine the territorial jurisdiction of labour court: Delhi HC
Delhi High Court in J Balaji vs. The Hindu New Delhi & Anr. [Letters Patent Appeal No. 640/2022]on August 29, 2023 while noting that the employee was employed in Chennai when his services were terminated and the termination order was also issued in Chennai, held that the cause of action for...
Luminous Power Technologies has announced the appointment of Shikha Gupta as its new Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). Shikha joins Luminous from Schneider Electric, where she served as the Director of HR and DEI for India and South Asia. In the new role, Shikha will be reporting to Preeti...
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