The coronavirus outbreak in India and its subsequent lockdowns have caused a migrant crisis in the country. The mass exodus of workers from various parts of the country to their hometown has been compared to the partition of India and Pakistan. Due to the closure of businesses and manufacturing industries, workers lost all of their…
Tata Motors – India’s leading automobile brand, announced a calibrated restart of manufacturing operations for both Commercial and Passenger Vehicles from its plants located at Pantnagar (Uttarakhand) beginning last week and from Sanand (Gujarat). Tata Motors plants in Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), Dharwad (Karnataka), Jamshedpur (Jharkhand) and Pune (only for Ambulance Vehicle manufacturing) are in final…
Ashok Leyland, an Indian automobile company headquartered in Chennai, announced in their exchange filing that the company has resumed operations at their manufacturing facilities. Vipin Sondhi, Managing Director & CEO, Ashok Leyland Limited, said, “With the relaxation of the lockdown, we have resumed operations in all our plants across the Country, after obtaining necessary approvals…
In the current scenario of lockdown announced by the Government to control the spread of COVID-19 pandemic and other disruptions, the employers are not able to function normally and are facing problems in using their digital signatures or Aadhaar based e-sign on EPFO portal. Many important tasks like KYC attestation, transfer claim attestation, etc., are…
As the country was under complete lockdown till May 3, all manufacturing operations were shut down nationwide resulting in great loss to the companies involved in manufacturing. However after May 3, the central government has lifted lockdown in few areas which are categorised as Green Zones, but the manufacturing operations are run in accordance to…
India lockdown extended till May 17th.
While everybody is hoping for the lockdown to get over on May 3rd and businesses start functioning like usual, a senior Haryana govt official has recently said that Gurugram might have to wait a little longer for that sight. According to Gurugram Metropolitan Authority Chief Executive Officer and Haryana Government Additional Chief Secretary V.S Kundu,…
The Ministry of Home Affairs announced that it has revised the lockdown guidelines by giving relaxation to local shop owners and certain establishments that are engaged in selling non-essential items. Registered shops selling non-essential goods can now open from Saturday onwards. This order comes as a modification of the order issued by the Ministry on…
The coronavirus pandemic has impacted normal worklife severely. The global economy came to a halt because of the pandemic and now every business and economist is waiting for it to be over as soon as possible. The decision of imposing nationwide lockdown by the government has now started to take a toll on the GDP.…
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has clarified to all states that there are no such rules in the April 15 guidelines that allow States to “take legal action, including imprisonment of a CEO” in case an employee is found Covid-19-positive. MHA in its press release said, “Some apprehensions, based on wrong interpretation of the guidelines,…
India’s largest airline by market share IndiGo, recently announced that it has decided to not go ahead with its earlier decision of employee salary cut for the month of April. The airline said that the decision is in deference to the Central government’s wishes. “In deference to our Government’s wishes of not reducing pay during…
As per the International Labour Organisation’s prediction, the world will witness a loss of about 2.5 million jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic. Most of these job losses are coming from new-age startups and small scale industries who are being tested the most by the economic situation. After hospitality startups like Treebo and Fab Hotels,…
As the government planned to allow certain relaxations in its lockdown advisory after April 20, E-commerce companies were aiming for a renewal of services. But in a surprising move, the government has made a U-turn and revised its order. The government had recently released its lockdown guidelines, which allowed e-commerce companies to operate fully and…
Covid-19 safety and related guidelines for workplaces – offices, factories and other establishments once they open up after 20th April 2020.In his address to the nation on 14 April 2020, the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi announced that the nationwide lockdown will be extended till May 3 to further strengthen the efforts of the…
With long queues at grocery stores and society arranged vegetable marts, swarming online orders, delivery slots are overbooked, stocks are scarce, and people are struggling to get the basic cooking essentials in their households. Lining up at the supermarkets and being exposed to contacted surfaces isn’t the safest choice either, when social distancing is the…