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Vineet Kaul

Vineet Kaul

HR Advisor and Mentor

Vineet Kaul is an HR Advisor and Mentor with extensive experience across industries and geographies.

He worked with the Aditya Birla Group as Advisor, Group Human Resources, and earlier as CHRO for Hindalco. Prior to this, he was Vice President (HR), India Subcontinent, and a Director on the Board of Philips India Limited.

Vineet began his career as a management trainee with Telco (now Tata Motors) in 1976, and went on to lead the HR function at Birla Yamaha Limited and Eicher Motors Limited.

Over the course of his career, he has been closely involved in setting up large greenfield projects, launching new businesses, and managing legacy organizations. His expertise spans business restructuring, leadership development, talent management, employee relations, performance management, and post-merger integration. He has also been responsible for driving social projects and external relations.

Vineet has been active in industry forums, having served on the National IR Committee of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). He is a Past President of both the Employers Federation of India and the Mumbai Chapter of the National HRD Network.

An alumnus of Fergusson College, Pune, and the Faculty of Social Work, MS University, Baroda, Vineet brings a rich blend of academic grounding and practical leadership experience to his work as an advisor and mentor.

My Work

India’s Labour Codes: The Shift from Protecting Jobs to Formalising Work
·Economy, Policy & Society

India’s Labour Codes: The Shift from Protecting Jobs to Formalising Work

The Codes rewrite the architecture of wages, flexibility, digital compliance, gig work and industrial relations. But the real transformation depends on how states implement them—and how leaders rebuild trust, dignity and fairness inside workplaces

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Vivek Patwardhan
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Satish Pradhan

Vineet Kaul, Vivek Patwardhan & Satish Pradhan

The Quiet Drift Toward Precarity
·Economy, Policy & Society

The Quiet Drift Toward Precarity

What the rise of contract labour reveals about the health of India’s factories — and the future of India Inc.

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Vineet Kaul

Vineet Kaul

HR Advisor and Mentor

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