I fired my star employee for a private hobby she kept off the clock; now my whole team says I'm the problemA small business owner fired her star employee after discovering her adult furry art online, despite admitting customers would likely never...
08 Jun, 2026, 02.37 PM IST
Can govt employee be terminated from service for suppressing higher qualification: SC to examineThe Supreme Court will review a Telangana High Court ruling. The ruling upheld the termination of a Scheduled Tribe employee for not disclo...
02 Jun, 2026, 06.22 PM IST
'It's April Fools! It was a joke! Get back in here!': The boss whose prank made the employee walk out, but cost him his position and earned the employee a raiseA boss's April Fools' Day prank of firing an employee went terribly wrong. The employee reacted by quitting and reporting the incident. Thi...
01 Jun, 2026, 04.52 PM IST
"Punch in the stomach after 20 years": How a JPMorgan employee won $4 million after being fired over a $600 food platterA former JPMorgan broker, fired over a $642.50 deli bill for a Super Bowl party, has been awarded $4.25 million in damages. A FINRA panel r...
29 May, 2026, 03.07 PM IST
RBI proposes rules to let lenders disable phones for loan defaultsThe Reserve Bank of India is proposing to allow lenders to disable certain mobile phone functions for loan defaulters, specifically for dev...
20 May, 2026, 07.26 PM IST
Employee requests for his unpaid salary, gets terminated the next day without any money. 'Don't know what do now'A software engineer’s Reddit post has gone viral after he claimed that a Noida startup terminated him just a day after he emailed HR about ...
19 May, 2026, 10.07 PM IST
No, the Iran war won’t ground your European holiday flightA commentary on the US-Iran conflict says European summer flights are unlikely to face major disruptions for now, despite earlier fears ove...
18 May, 2026, 09.55 AM IST
Profit on paper, loss in reality: How a routine accounting tool is used to deceive and take investors for a rideAmortisation is a number most investors skip, but it can shape reported profit. On the surface, it looks routine: A company spreads the cos...
15 May, 2026, 06.58 PM IST
IPL 2026 scam season is here: Over 600 fake ticket sites, 400 malware-linked streams cheat fansAs the IPL 2026 season kicks off, a rise in cyber scams is alarming eager cricket enthusiasts. Unscrupulous fraudsters are capitalising on ...
13 May, 2026, 12.34 PM IST
Can you be fired from job despite achieving your annual target? Know what the labour law saysMeeting annual targets doesn't guarantee job security in the private sector. Labour laws, particularly the Industrial Disputes Act, offer p...
11 May, 2026, 11.55 AM IST
Employee starts new job, gets fired within a week for raising salary related issue. 'I asked what I did wrong'An employee claimed he was fired within a week of joining after he raised a concern about not being paid for his first day. After contactin...
08 May, 2026, 10.36 PM IST
Husband claims company wrongfully fired wife using technicality, post goes viralA manufacturing worker's sudden dismissal from a unionized plant has ignited a workplace dispute. Management allegedly manufactured miscond...
07 May, 2026, 10.46 PM IST
Got a PIP at work? Here's what it really means and exactly what you should do about it nowA Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) is a structured workplace process designed to address performance gaps, set expectations, and guide em...
06 May, 2026, 12.03 AM IST
Laid off by top tech companies? Here’s what you need to negotiate, and why workers over 40 should pay attentionEmployee rights after layoff: Laid-off workers, especially those over 40, have more time and leverage than they realize when reviewing seve...
05 May, 2026, 01.44 PM IST
IndusInd's ex-CFO files Rs 70-cr suit over wrongful terminationFormer IndusInd Bank CFO Gobind Jain has filed a ₹70-crore lawsuit against the bank in the Bombay High Court, alleging wrongful termination...
05 May, 2026, 06.15 AM IST
Trump flouts lower court rulings in unprecedented display of executive powerPresident Donald Trump's administration has repeatedly ignored federal court orders. This defiance spans various policy areas, from immigra...
02 May, 2026, 11.31 AM IST
Cashier given ‘manager’ designation and fired; Supreme Court observed that nomenclature was ‘eyewash’ and it restores his job with past salaryThe Supreme Court has reinstated a hotel cashier wrongly dismissed. The court ruled his 'manager' title was a mere formality. His actual du...
19 Jan, 2026, 11.52 AM IST