Chennai: Companies witnessing a business swell due to Covid, be it edu tech or healthcare startups, are going a step further and recruiting more hands to meet the demand. Common roles include tech and content development, to propel the marketing for the companies that are looking to capitalise on the increase in demand. The demand…

Coronavirus-led crisis may lead India to permanently come out of the problem of skill mismatch among the workers. As the government and the industry have decided to map the skill sets of the workers to determine the kind of work that can be offered to them, it is considered to be a good time to…

The Indian Staffing Federation has approached the Ministry of Labour and Employment and the Ministry of Finance seeking immediate protection of livelihood for 33 lakh temporary workers in the country. This comes at a time when various companies are looking at layoffs. At least four corporates that ET spoke to are contemplating to cut their…

Bengaluru: The Indian Staffing Federation has urged the labour and finance ministries to take immediate steps to protect the livelihood of 3.3 million temporary workers. The appeal comes at a time when various companies are looking at layoffs. At least, four companies told ET that they were thinking of reducing their temporary staff by 40-60%…

Indian Staffing Federation has proposed no increase in minimum wages next one year and bringing down the provident fund contributions from 12 per cent to 6 per cent The extension of the coronavirus lockdown till May 3 would have sent jitters among sectors such as retail, travel and hospitality, which have come to a grinding…

Indian Staffing Federation (ISF), the apex body of flexi staffing industry, has appointed Lohit Bhatia as its president and Farhan Azmi as its vice-president. Lohit Bhatia is the President Workforce Management, Quess Corp and Farhan Azmi is the CMD (chairman-cum-managing director)), Futurz Staffing Pvt Ltd. Bhatia and Azmi will be taking over from the outgoing…

The Indian Staffing Federation (ISF), apex body of India’s staffing industry, announced its new Executive Board for the term 2020-22. Lohit Bhatia, President, Workforce Management, Quess Corp was elected as the President of ISF while Farhan Azmi, Founder & managing director, Futurz Staffing Solutions, was announced as the Vice President of the Board. Bhatia takes…

Indian Staffing Federation (ISF), the apex body of India’s Flexi staffing space, today announced its new leadership team for 2020-2022. Lohit Bhatia, President Workforce Management, Quess Corp and Farhan Azmi, CMD, Futurz Staffing Pvt. Ltd. have been elected as the President & Vice-president and will be taking over from the outgoing President Rituparna Chakraborty, Co-founder…

Indian Staffing Federation (ISF), the apex body of India’s Flexi staffing space, today announced its new leadership team for 2020-2022. Lohit Bhatia, President Workforce Management, Quess Corp and Farhan Azmi, CMD, Futurz Staffing Pvt. Ltd. have been elected as the President & Vice-president and will be taking over from the outgoing President Rituparna Chakraborty, Co-founder…

The Indian Staffing Federation (ISF), apex body of India’s flexi staffing space, on Wednesday appointed Lohit Bhatia as its new president and Farhan Azmi as the vice president for 2020-22. Bhatia replaces Rituparna Chakraborty while Azmi has been appointed in place of RP Yadav. Bhatia is president of Quess Corp while Azmi is chairman and…

Indian Staffing Federation (ISF), the apex body of India’s flexi staffing space, today announced its new leadership team for 2020-2022. Lohit Bhatia, President Workforce Management, Quess Corp and Farhan Azmi, CMD, Futurz Staffing Pvt. Ltd. have been elected as the President & Vice-president and will be taking over from the outgoing President Rituparna Chakraborty, Co-founder…

With festive season creating momentum for employment through a surge in the e-commerce industry, the direct impact has been felt in the logistics and transportation industry. Indian Staffing Federation in its recent report has identified it as the propeller of jobs at the ground level specifically creating opportunities in Tier II and Tier III cities.…

With uberisation of the workforce, the dynamics of new age professional is fast changing with virtual offices, flexi working hours and work from home timetables which give the employees their place and space, says Suchita Dutta Boardroom discussions are drastically changing the way businesses are adapting themselves due to the technological and digital advancement influencing…

Skills should have been a priority after Independence because an unskilled or unemployed Indian is not a free Indian, and the launch of the Skill India campaign in 2015 seemed a fresh departure from the past. Taking a historical perspective, the phase 1 of skills in India was largely about a purposeless drift without vision,…

India is one of the most attractive destinations for investments in today’s world. The GDP growth projected at above 6.5% is also one of the strongest attracting factors in the business environment. With this definitive indication of the competitive strength India has, we are struggling with the other end of extremities that impacts the most…

The notions of employee welfare, job security, service benefits and career advancement are in various levels of evolution in India, which has its teeming millions of working people. While the bottom heap of the workers seldom have any claim to formal, collective identity, even a large chunk of workers in organised sectors too face a…

Given the complexities and rigidness involved in the jobs market, organizations are striving for agility to respond quickly to meet their business demands. Flexi staffing industry allows both employers and workers to better adapt with the increasing volatility in labor market. An organization can adjust its manpower according to the demand dynamics, giving them an…

Labour laws have to be calibrated away from job protection and towards job creation, if India is to do justice to its youth. Two stakeholders figure prominently in every conversation over employment in India—industry and the youth. We have a million youth entering the workforce every month, and that is how it is going to…

India’s problem is not job shortage, but poverty. Our unemployment rate of 4.8 per cent is not a problem, but the fact that our labour force is “working poor” is. They make enough money to live, but not enough to pull themselves out of poverty. This problem is complicated by our so-called demographic dividend—10 lakh…