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Role of HR in ensuring a vibrant workplace: leading with acceptance, compassion and inclusion with focus on LGBTQ+ employees

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Law as the balancing factor between human wants and social welfare emerges as instrument of social change. Law and society, both are organic concepts. Social advancement leads to growth of law and the converse is also true. The concept of law as social engineering was expounded by a famous American scholar of law in the early 20th century which provides for striving a balance between competing interests in society. Given the march of law and society, both international and domestic, in the direction of expanding human rights, jurisprudence and our Fundamental Duty as a citizen of our country, necessarily means that we become inclined towards acceptance of requirements of our society, be it even a small segment of society.

Practicing the Power of NOW

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Mental health at work is now a business priority. Employees must be trained to build their consciousness and emotional Intelligence to regulate emotions in tough situations, develop the patience to deal with difficult people, motivate oneself and the team, being gently assertive, ensure unbiased decision-making, enhance effective communications and promote DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion). Clearly, it is in the interest of business to promote employees’ mental health and the cost of not doing it is quite high.

The perils of success

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This article is taken from the case study of a successful corporate executive, who sought psychiatric assistance to overcome issues of anger management.

Employees Pension scheme, 1995- A saga of Litigation

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In the year 1971, family pension scheme (FPS-71) was introduced by amending ‘the Employees’ Provident Funds & Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952′, providing for payment of family pension in the event of death of the member while in service.

Moonlighting in Employment

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Moonlighting has become todays buzz word in service industry specially IT services industry. The same has become big talking point, especially after getting the news of termination of the services of 300 employees who were working for its competitors as side hustle by one of the leading IT major of India Wipro despite being on regular payroll of the company mentioning integrity violation.

Stargazing and Astrophotography

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Working as a construction engineer looking after laying of critical cross country LPG pipeline can be tiring for one’s body and for one’s mind too. Star gazing in peace has always found me relief. But with technological advancements reaching every village, the night sky has become polluted and not many constellations can be seen through naked eye. Getting a telescope opened a Pandora’s box.

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