India’s Code on Social Security now funds benefits for gig and platform workers through named aggregators like Zomato and Uber. Here’s why that doesn’t automatically cover your India-based contractors, and what to check in your agreements instead.
Background verification in India works best after the offer is accepted, with written consent and checks matched to role risk. Here’s the process, the law, and the EOR angle.
A non-compete clause in India can bind an employee while they work for you, but it generally can’t stop them joining a competitor after they leave. Section 27 of the Indian Contract Act voids agreements that restrain a lawful profession, trade or business, and courts apply that rule to post-employment covenants. So the useful question […]
India’s new labour codes stopped being a future event on 21 November 2025. That’s when four codes took effect together: the Code on Wages, the Industrial Relations Code, the Code on Social Security, and the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code. Together, they folded 29 older laws into four. The central government notified the […]
Gig and platform workers in India got a formal seat in employment law for the first time under the Code on Social Security, 2020. By 2026, the paperwork obligations tied to that status stopped being theoretical. If you run a ride-hailing, delivery, logistics, e-marketplace, or freelance-platform business with India-facing operations, you now need to register […]
Pune tech talent market data now backs up what recruiters have been saying quietly for a couple of years. You can hire engineers here who match Bengaluru’s depth on most stacks, at a real discount. And the city’s GCC pipeline is growing faster than the national average. That’s not a marketing line. It’s what foundit’s […]
Recruiting cybersecurity specialists in India means competing for talent against a severe supply shortage, roughly 400,000 open cybersecurity roles nationally against an estimated 160,000 qualified candidates to fill them. That imbalance is not a minor statistic. It is the single biggest reason cybersecurity pay is climbing 14 to 18 percent year over year in India, […]
Winding down your India operations now comes down to speed and sequence, not just paperwork. Since India’s four labour codes took effect in November 2025, employers have to settle everything an outgoing employee is owed within two working days, and penalties for missing that window start landing from July 2026. Get the sequence wrong and […]
Recruit sales talent in India and you’re up against a different set of problems than recruiting engineers, even though most first-time hirers treat the two the same way. Sourcing isn’t the hard part, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi NCR, and Pune all carry deep enterprise sales benches. The hard part is getting three things right before an […]
Hyderabad’s IT talent market has become India’s fastest-growing Tier-1 hub for global capability centres, now accounting for roughly 15 percent of all GCC hiring nationally and growing at 15 percent year over year. Salaries here still run 10 to 20 percent below Bengaluru for comparable roles, but that gap has compressed faster than most companies […]
