Amazing facts of 2009 related to Labour laws – Human Resource
Here are some uncommon amazing facts:
1. At an interview for the post of watchmen, liftmen and sweepers for Calcutta University, out of 400 applicants, 250 applicants were graduates and 15 had post graduate degrees.
2. According to a British research on 150 business enterprises and over 4000+ employees, an employee waste an hour a day sending and receiving emails.
3. As per Merit Trac-Services, Bangalore, out of 100,000+ MBA graduates annually from 1400+ B-schools across India, only 23% are worth employing.
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4. Life Insurance Corporation has 1.26 million agents and more than 114,000 employees.
5. Bihar has sacked 15,000 teachers who were working on fake certificates.
6. Still the Indian Railways is the largest employer in the world.
7. Virgin Mobile has decided to grant leave to their employees for taking care of their ten weeks old or younger pets.
8. Lakshmi Mittal has been able to save $18 millions/ year by replacing sixty German employees with sixty desi employees.
9. Lijjat Papad which started its journey with a mere Rs.80 as capital, now employees more than 4000 women.
10. There are 65,000+ registered sex workers in Durbar Mahila Samanya Committee, Kolkata.
11. Ben Southall of England has been selected over 35,000 applicants to relax in the Great Barrier Reef on Hamilton Island. His actual job is to write blogs and promote the area.
12. The potential value of each employee of Infosys is Rs.97 lacks annually.
13. Workers at the Ashok Leyland plant came up with 1,586 innovative ideas within six months to improve efficiency and reduce cost.
14. Emirates Airlines has paid Rs.5 lacs compensation to a passenger who has lost his job as the flight was rescheduled without prior information.
15. Japanese Government is considering Compulsory Vacation Law.
16. In spite of the recession, WAL MART did not give pink slips to any of its 21 lacs employees.
17. Out of 58,750 beggars of Delhi, 4 beggars have a post graduate degree. And 22 of them earned around Rs.200-500 a day – Survey by Delhi University Social Work.
18. 38% doctors in America are Indian.
19. Indian Army has strength of 46,615 officers while it is going through a shortage of 11,238.
20. Employees’ State Insurance Corporation has the largest infrastructure in the whole world.
21. More than 600 executive of Indian companies earn over Rs.1 crore annually which is unfortunately 250 times more than the country’s per capita income.
22. 800 employees of British Airways decided to stand beside their company during the recession by working for free.
23. 50,000 people are employed by Sulabh International, the chain responsible for public toilet.
24. Currently 8368 employees of Indian Railways are facing departmental proceedings.
25. In spite of employing 30,000 security guards, the Security & Intelligence Services still don’t have any union.
Source: Labour Law Reporter 2009
