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BPCL offers 2% shares to employees at one-third of market rate
07 Sep 2020
The PSU is offering two per cent of its shares through stock options to eligible employees out of the 'BPCL Trust for Investment in Shares' that the company holds
Anand Mahindra to step down as chairman of Mahindra & Mahindra
20 Dec 2019
Anand Mahindra will step down as executive chairman and assume the role of non-executive chairman effective 1 April 2020 while Pawan Kumar Goenka will continue as managing director of M&M with the additional role of CEO
Isro ranked fifth best place to work in India
20 Dec 2019
Audi in deal with workers to slash 9,500 jobs in 5 years
26 Nov 2019
The platform-oriented allocation of jobs is expected to result in cost savings of about 6 billion euros even as Audi AG will guarantee jobs for employees till 2029 as agreed upon
IT companies look to cut jobs in India as hiring in US rises
11 Nov 2019
Forced to hire more in the United States, major IT companies, including TCS, Wipro and HCL, are doing a balancing act by cutting jobs in India and beefing up in new areas of digital technology and AI
Over 18,000 BSNL staff opt for VRS within days of roll-out
07 Nov 2019
The VRS option, which is open to employees of BSNL and MTNL above the age of 50 years - or about 121,000 of the 200,000 total number of employees - will remain open till 4 December
Employees strike to hit banking operations today
22 Oct 2019
Finance ministry wants BSNL, MTNL closed down: report
10 Oct 2019
In the event of closure of the two state-run telcos, which together employs nearly 1,65,000 people, the finance ministry feels that the VRS payout of Rs29,182 crore can be reworked while also saving 4G spectrum cost of Rs20,410 crore and the Rs13,202 crore capex required to roll out the 4G services
BSNL to offer VRS to 80,000 employees
06 Sep 2019
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