The Indian Staffing Federation (ISF) announced its newly elected Executive Board for the 2022-2024 term.

The newly elected 12-member board takes the reigns on the first week of April. Lohit Bhatia, President, Workforce, Quess Corp has been re-elected as President of the Indian Staffing Federation, while Pramod Pachisia, COO, 2coms Consulting Private Limited has been elected as Vice President.

In a LinkedIn post, the ISF announced the rest of the Executive Board which includes:

-        Sanju Ballurkar, President Experis IT, ManpowerGroup, India

-        Sunil Chemmankotil, Head, Specialised Staffing at Teamlease Digital

-        Farhan Azmi, Chairman & managing director, Futurz Staffing Solutions

-        Tapasi Chakraborty, CEO, Astute Outsourcing Services

-        Narayan Bhargava, Chairman & managing director, Calibehr Business Support Services

-        Mehul Shah, managing director, Collabera Technologies  

-        Viswanath PS, managing director & CEO, Randstad India 

-        Suhas Basakhetre, managing director, Prompt Personnel

-        Somnath Banerjee, Director, Orion Corporate Alliance 

-        R P Yadav, Chairman & managing director, Genius Consultants  

Bhatia said, “It is a humbling experience when our 100 staffing member companies choose twelve industry colleagues to represent the industry on critical issues that plague the formal employment scenario of the country. The Executive Board along with me and the secretariat will ensure to mitigate the issues, while continuing our efforts with the government of India and states, across the employment and issues. Our first priority will also be to support the labour ministry (both state and central) to make the labour codes a reality.”

Pachisia added, “The Indian economy has been seeing rapid growth in a business, thereby fueling their need for manpower. Industries like healthcare, e-commerce, Technology and Digital businesses have been growing exponentially and this would continue to grow over the next couple of quarters. Staffing companies have been at the forefront in enabling organisations to meet their growing demand for the workforce. In sectors like technology and digital business, there is also rapid change in skill and hence creating a large skill gap which is best suited for staffing companies to leverage by skill and up-skilling of the workforce."

Pachisia also told People Matters India, “The methods of doing business have evolved post-pandemic. Organisations increasingly want to engage contract workforce and staffing companies due to the flexibility required in business. Skilling and upskilling of talent is the need of the hour more than ever before due to the large-scale changes taking place in organisations of all sizes.” 

According to Pachisia, the skills gap in the available workforce only increases the need for organisations for exercising all available employment formats to remain productive and competitive.

“Through staffing Companies, freshers often find their first job which becomes the stepping stone for them to join formal jobs in the industry.  It will be the endeavour of the federation to increase formal opportunities and allow the young workforce to be employed through formal employment channels. The efforts to build a formal employment roadmap also go through the staffing companies associated with the skilling ecosystem,” Pachisia said.

 The Federation’s goal is to bring formal employment to India’s 390 million informal workforces. By bringing the informal workforce into formal employment the board vowed dignity of labour, minimum wage protection and social security for them.