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India.com
23-05-2025
- Business
- India.com
This IT firm to promote 15000 employees in India alone, 50000 worldwide, not Ratan Tata's TCS or Narayana Murthy's Infosys, but it is…
IT giant Accenture is set to promote around 15,000 employees in India in June 2024. This promotion is part of Accenture's global promotion drive, under which over 50,000 employees worldwide will get advancements in their roles. Ajay Vij, the company's Senior Managing Director in India, shared this information in an internal email to employees. He mentioned that during the entire fiscal year 2024-25, more than 43,000 employees in India would be promoted. In December, Accenture did some stay-at-level (base pay) increases for some employees. Between June and December, a majority of Indian employees will have got base pay increases. 'As a reminder, bonus and performance equity decisions for those eligible will continue to be made as part of the December cycle, and we will also continue to evaluate the opportunity for stay-at-level increases at that time,' Vij added. In September 2024, the Ireland-headquartered firm permanently shifted its promotion cycle from December to June, citing better visibility of client spending and demand. 'We've now permanently shifted that promotion cycle, so we will do our big promotion cycle in June, and our smaller one in December, to better match when our clients are setting their budgets and we have better visibility, and that's what we're seeing again. 'The justification for that is clear that we'll really know IT spending and spending on our services in the budgets in January and February,' Accenture CEO Julie Sweet had said during the company's earnings call in September. Accenture is one of the largest employers in the Indian IT services sector, with over 3,00,000 staff. Its global employee count stands at 7,74,000. Accenture reported revenues of USD 64.90 billion in FY24. (With Inputs From PTI)
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
More than 150 acres timbered at King Coal site
bluefield — A massive timbering project at the site of the King Coal Highway project in Bluefield has concluded. Approximately 150 acres of timber was cut to make way for the next phase of the new interstate project in Mercer County, according to Rusty Marks with the public relations office for the West Virginia Department of Transportation. While much of that timbering wasn't visible to motorists traveling along the new four-lane corridor, the timbered trees are visible from the distance near the 'road closed' sign where the King Coal Highway currently connects with the existing Airport Road. That's where the next section of the interstate corridor will begin. The new $58 million contract will take the King Coal Highway another 2.5 miles from Airport Road to Littlesburg Road, near Route 20 and the Bluewell community. However, earth-moving work on that project can't begin until two permits are received by the DOH, according to Mark. Those permits may not be received until late summer. 'The contractor, Kanawha Stone, is securing a 404 permit as well as an NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit),' Marks said in an email response to questions by the Daily Telegraph. 'If these permits are obtained prior to August, then construction work can resume. August is simply the date in which these permits are assumed to be in place so that work can begin.' A 404 permit falls under the Clean Waters Act and regulates the discharge of dredged or fill material into waters of the United States, including wetlands. A groundbreaking ceremony on the Littlesburg Road section of the King Coal Highway was held last November, but no actual work on the highway project was completed at that time due to the pending arrival of winter. A third Mercer County contract is still in the planning stages. Once it is approved, that project will extend the King Coal Highway another five miles from the Littlesburg Road area toward the Montcalm community. The Littlesburg Road to Montcalm section of the King Coal Highway is still under environmental review. A contract award date for that stretch of the roadway has not yet been announced. The King Coal Highway is West Virginia's local corridor of the future Interstate 73/74/75 routing. In West Virginia, the King Coal Highway will ultimately extend 95 miles through Mercer, McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming and Wayne counties along or near currently existing U.S. 52 from U.S. 119 near Williamson to Interstate 77 in Bluefield. In the bigger picture, the final Interstate 73/74/75 routing will extend from Detroit, Michigan to Myrtle Beach, S.C, opening up a large swath of Southern West Virginia to interstate access. According to the National I-73/74/75 Corridor Association, the project will bring growth along the interstate within six states: Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Sections of the interstate corridor are already open in other states, including North Carolina and South Carolina. Contact Charles Owens at cowens@
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Teacher Turnover Spiked During COVID. But It's Now Fallen for 2 Years in a Row
According to the latest data, teacher turnover rates have been coming down for the last two years. That finding comes from a hodgepodge of state documents and research reports. With the caveat that those sources may count things in slightly different ways and at different time periods, the pattern that emerges is consistent. In fall 2020, the country was still in the thick of the COVID pandemic. The economy was on uncertain footing, many schools stayed remote and teacher turnover rates fell. That is, more educators stayed put. Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter But as the world began to open up, teachers started leaving in higher numbers, first in 2021 and then again in 2022. That fall, the country hit modern highs in the percentage of teachers leaving their positions. Related But those moves were temporary. Last year, Wall Street Journal (and former 74) reporter Matt Barnum found that teacher turnover rates fell in 2023 for each of the 10 states for which he was able to find data. Not all the changes were big, but the trends were all falling. For fall 2024, the current school year, I was able to find data from six states: Colorado, Delaware, Arizona, Texas, South Carolina and Massachusetts. All but Texas experienced year-over-year declines in teacher turnover. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' Job Openings and Labor Turnover survey shows similar trends nationally. For a broad category that includes all state and local government education employees, employee quit rates surged in 2022, fell in 2023 and then decreased again in 2024. Similarly, the American School District Panel from RAND found turnover rates falling among teachers and principals in the fall of 2023 and 2024. Notably, the biggest declines were seen in the places where turnover had surged the most during the initial pandemic years. You could squint at the data closely and note that turnover rates are still a bit higher than where they were pre-pandemic. But zoom out, and the numbers look broadly similar to historical trends. For example, Dan Goldhaber and Roddy Theobald looked at teacher turnover rates in Washington state from 1984-85 to 2021-22 and found that total turnover, including teachers who left the profession, switched schools, or left teaching but stayed in education, has ranged from about 14% to 20% in Washington since the mid-1980s. It did indeed hit a modern peak (of 19.8%) in 2021-22, but Goldhaber and Theobald's more recent work in Washington showed turnover was again starting to fall in 2023. How should we put these figures in context? First, despite its recent surge, public education has maintained lower quit rates than any other industry except for the federal government. In any given month, less than 2% of public education employees leave their jobs, compared with rates twice that high in the private sector. Within public education, teachers tend to have lower turnover rates than other employees do. Colorado, for example, has published turnover data by role since 2007. The chart below shows the results. Teachers (in red) tend to have similar turnover rates as principals (light blue), but those are much lower than the turnover rates in other roles. Paraprofessionals, in dark blue, typically have turnover rates that are 10 to 15 percentage points higher than teachers do. How should we square this with soft data coming out of teacher surveys? Those results are messier, but they could fit the same basic trajectory. One high-quality study out of Illinois found that teacher working conditions worsened substantially from 2021 to 2023. And research looking at a range of survey and pipeline indicators suggested that the state of the profession was at 50-year lows as of data ending a couple years ago. More recently, Education Week's Teacher Morale Index showed a significant rebound in 2024-25 over the prior year. Related None of this is to say that policymakers should be content with the status quo. And indeed, there continue to be problem spots. Rural schools, those in low-income areas and certain teaching roles, especially in special education, tend to have higher turnover rates than others. But those call for more specialized and tailored solutions rather than universal policies. Moreover, policymakers can at least take heart that the worst of the teacher turnover surge appears to be in the rearview mirror.
Time of India
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Lawyer assault: Beyline Das arrested
1 2 3 4 T'puram: Vanchiyoor police on Thursday arrested advocate Beyline Das, 48, in a case related to the brutal assault of his junior advocate Syamili J V, 26, during a discussion about her expulsion from office on Tuesday. The Ambalathara native was arrested near Station Kadavu based on a tip-off received by police. Das had moved an anticipatory bail application and a court was about to consider it on Friday. Das's mobile phone remained switched off as he went absconding after the incident. It turned on at Poonthura on Tuesday and at Kazhakkoottam on Thursday morning. With this, police confirmed his presence in the city and search was intensified. In the evening, Vanchiyoor station house officer received a tip-off about him travelling in a red car near Station Kadavu. Soon, the control room was alerted and a Dansaf patrolling team started following him. Thumba police too got in touch with the Dansaf team through the control room and the car was stopped at Station Kadavu. Vanchiyoor police also reached the spot and took him into custody. Das was staying at his friend's house at Pallithura and even visited his ancestral house at Poonthura. The accused was charged under non-bailable BNS Section 74 (for using criminal force against a woman with the intention to outrage her modesty), 126 (2) (for wrongful restraint) and 115 (2) (for causing hurt). He was produced before a court and remanded in judicial custody for 14 days. Syamili thanked Kerala Police for arresting the accused and hoped legal proceedings would lead to apt punishment for Das. He had slapped her on the face all of a sudden during the discussion and she fell down. Pulling her up, the accused kept on slapping her until she fainted. Syamili was attacked when she was five months pregnant as well, she alleged. Oppn alleges CPM connection Opposition leader V D Satheesan alleged earlier that Das was not being arrested since he was close to CPM leaders. "Das, who brutally assaulted young lawyer Syamili, is being shielded by the govt and the police. The issue involves not only the disrespect towards womanhood but also inappropriate behaviour at workplace. However, neither the police nor the govt has taken any action," he alleged. "Das was a CPM candidate in the local body elections. Those who have come forward to protect him have close ties with the ruling party. There is suspicion that the govt is following the usual practice of saving party affiliates regardless of their criminal activities. The CPM's typical approach of pretending to support the victim while actually protecting the perpetrator cannot be allowed in this case," he said. Congress and UDF will fully support Shyamili's legal battle, he added.
Yahoo
22-04-2025
- Yahoo
Timbering begins for next section of King Coal Highway project
bluefield — Work is getting underway on a new 2.5 mile stretch of the King Coal Highway near Bluefield. Trees that are in the path of the planned roadway are now being removed, according to the West Virginia Department of Transportation. The $58 million project will take the King Coal Highway corridor from its current terminus point at Airport Road toward Littlesburg Road, near Bluewell and Route 20. According to Ryland Musick, District 10 engineer for the West Virginia Department of Highways in Princeton, trees are now being cut along the next 2.5 mile section of the four-lane corridor. Musick said earth work on the road is expected to begin in August. The King Coal Highway project is West Virginia's local corridor of the future Interstate 73/74/75 routing. The first section of the roadway, which extends from John Nash Boulevard in Bluefield to Airport Road, opened to traffic in late 2023. Former Governor Jim Justice, who is now a member of the U.S. Senate, joined local and state officials for a groundbreaking on the project last November. At that point, due to the looming arrival of winter, no further work was undertaken at the construction site until now. State highway officials at the time advised that actual construction work wouldn't get underway until this spring, which made the groundbreaking more of a ceremonial event. A second King Coal Highway contract is in the environmental review stages. It will extend the interstate corridor another five miles from the Littlesburg Road area toward the Montcalm community once that contract is finalized and awarded. It is not currently known how long that ongoing environmental review will take. A contract award date for that section of the King Coal Highway has not yet been announced. A public information meeting was held last year on the Montcalm stretch of the roadway. That 4.3 mile section of the King Coal Highway will go from Montcalm (County Route 11/4) in the north to Littlesburg Road (or West Virginia Route 20) in the south where it will connect to the existing section of the King Coal Highway at Airport Road. In West Virginia, the King Coal Highway will ultimately extend 95 miles through Mercer, McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming and Wayne counties along or near currently existing U.S. 52 from U.S. 119 near Williamson to Interstate 77 in Bluefield. In the bigger picture, the final Interstate 73/74/75 routing will extend from Detroit, Michigan to Myrtle Beach, S.C, opening up a large swath of Southern West Virginia to interstate access. According to the National I-73/74/75 Corridor Association, the project will bring growth along the interstate within six states: Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Sections of the interstate corridor are already open in other states, including North Carolina and South Carolina. Contact Charles Owens at cowens@
