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• Over 600 women employees in core operations at Hindustan Zinc

  Vedanta group firm Hindustan Zinc on Monday said the company's workforce includes more than 600 women employees in core operations. The company is spearheading transformations in its mining operations with over 200 women mining engineers.

  

• ‘First 3 months crucial to retain new women employees at workplace’

  ​There is also a direct correlation between the salary earned and willingness to remain in the job — the higher the pay, the more likely one will stay back in the job. “A better pay parity and income will mean that we won’t depend on other breadwinners of the family to go out for a meal with friends,” Priya M, 20, assembly operator at Quess, told TOI.

  

• India’s five big IT firms see net exit of 25,000 women in FY24

  Five of India’s leading IT services companies – Infosys, TCS, Wipro, LTI Mindtree, HCL Tech – have witnessed a cumulative net exit of 25,000 women in the one year ended March, an analysis of headcount data put together by staffing firm Xpheno showed.

  

• Fiserv empowers women employees and all kinds of diversity across the spectrum

  On the occasion of Mother’s Day, celebrated last Sunday, ETHRWorld speaks to Kanisha Raina, VP - HR, Global Services, Fiserv, how the company makes strides to understand diverse experiences and employee expectations that are foundational to creating an innovative and inclusive work environment, and encourages women as well as all the other different cohorts of diverse employees to thrive in their careers while balancing work and life commitments.

  

• Insights into MG Motor India's focus on gender diversity and other HR practices

  MG Motor India started work at the Halol plant in 2017, but the production started only in 2019. From the very beginning, the company decided that besides hiring men, it will also hire women, even for the shopfloor jobs. But hiring women for an automotive plant was not at all easy. Nevertheless, the company decided to go ahead.

  

• One in four women experience gender disparity in India's BFSI sector: Report

  The report by Great Place To Work India, a workplace assessment and recognition organisation is based on insights gathered from the feedback of more than 12 lakh employees from 167 organisations in the country's BFSI sector.

  

• 1,000 women work on factory shop floors of Yokohama India

  These women employees in the factories come from small towns of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Punjab, as per the statement.

  

• Vedanta Aluminium eyes 30% women employees by the end of 2024-25

  The milestone is set to arrive five years sooner than the company’s stated target of 2030, with women professionals already comprising 22 percent of the total number of employees at Vedanta Aluminium, according to a statement.

  

• This company is giving 30 days of additional paid leave to its women employees

  When asked about whether the organisation heard feedback like this leave policy is discriminatory against male employees, Luthra says, “It’s always natural to hear comments like ‘Why are you not giving us leave?’ when you provide leave for just one section of people in an organisation. But nobody has opposed or questioned the intent of the policy, as everybody was unanimously convinced that it was an absolute necessity.”

  

• ONGC witnesses gradual decline in its workforce since 2015-16

  According to its annual report for 2022-23, ONGC has witnessed a gradual decline in the number of employees from 33,927 employees reported for the financial year 2015-16 to 25,993 employees as of March 31, 2023.

  

• One in five board members at India Inc is now a woman

  Five years ago, one in eight directors was a woman, and ten years ago, the proportion was one among twenty members, Prime Database research showed.