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Every online tutor background verification decision an EdTech platform delays is a decision made on the parent’s behalf, without their knowledge. That is the uncomfortable truth behind India’s tutoring boom. Millions of students now log in for one-on-one sessions with adults they have never met in person, verified only by a resume and a video […]

The EY employment fraud report India study should change how your HR team reads every resume that lands on its desk. Released in May 2025, EY’s “The First Firewall” study reviewed more than one million background checks across 90-plus Indian companies. The headline finding is simple. Fraud showed up in 85% of employment history checks.

India’s labour law framework changed more in one November afternoon than it had in the previous seven decades. On November 21, 2025, the Government of India brought all four labour codes into force, replacing 29 separate central laws with a single, consolidated framework covering wages, industrial relations, social security, and workplace safety. For HR teams,

A domestic worker background check India families run before hiring a cook, driver, maid, or guard is quietly becoming standard practice. It used to feel excessive. Now it feels overdue. Every day, lakhs of Indian households hand over house keys, gate codes, and daily access to a person they met through a neighbour’s reference or

Address verification tier 2 cities checks look simple on paper. A field agent visits, confirms the person lives there, and files a report. In practice, this step derails more hiring timelines than any other part of background verification once a company expands beyond Delhi, Mumbai, or Bengaluru. HR and compliance teams scaling into smaller cities

Continuous background monitoring India programs exist because a one-time check freezes risk at a single date. Most Indian companies verify a candidate once, before day one, and never look again. That single snapshot tells you who someone was on their joining date. It tells you nothing about who they became eighteen months later. Employees change

Pre-IPO due diligence hiring used to sit quietly inside HR. Not anymore. SEBI’s 2025 ICDR amendments changed that. Background checks on your key managerial personnel and senior management are now a disclosure obligation, not just a hiring formality. If your company is heading toward a DRHP filing, this matters directly. The people you’ve already hired

Aadhaar verification for employment sits at the center of a quiet but persistent confusion inside Indian HR teams. Most recruiters have collected an Aadhaar photocopy at some point during onboarding. Far fewer can say, with confidence, whether that step was legal. As the Digital Personal Data Protection framework matures through 2026, that gap between habit

Contract worker background verification in India sits at the center of a question most companies would rather not answer precisely: if a contractor’s worker causes harm, skips PF payments, or turns out to be someone entirely different from who they claimed to be, who actually carries the liability? The honest answer is uncomfortable for procurement

Remote work solved a distribution problem for Indian companies. It also created a verification problem nobody budgeted for. When a workforce sits behind a screen instead of a security badge, the oldest trick in payroll fraud — the ghost employee — gets a new lease of life. Ghost employee fraud India cases are no longer