Labour Law

We are passing through an era of new changes in many areas and changes in existing archaic labour laws also is contentiously on the anvil. It is hoped that the idea of 4 days working, if so, would be based on a thoughtful consideration of its pros and cons.

'Principal to principal' employment will accelerate the pace of industrial growth and will also increase the quantum of employees and will be more economical.

Once the new labour Codes are made effective, restructuring of salary will be imperative keeping in view the new definition of wages, leading to increase in CTC. From April, when the next financial year begins, and the Labour Codes are introduced, the employers will have to restructure the wages of...

Monday blues are the serious warning signs that everything is not fine after free weekends. According to a survey conducted in European countries, the cases of heart strokes occur more on Mondays than on any other days because employees feel unduly stressed with the feeling of going to offices and...

With the dynamic changes in the marketplace, it is the prerogative of the management to take calls which are unconventional but help the organisation to manage itself in tough times and set the foundation for a better tomorrow. Settlement discussion and structure must allow themselves to be...

Formation of an IC is not only the duty cast upon the employer. In many occasions it has been found that the IC lacks competence and competency to deal with a given situation. Hence, it becomes imperative upon the employer to educate, sensitize and train their IC members as to how an enquiry should...

In case of Social Security Code and OSH Code if the settlement has provisions that are more favourable to the employee compared to the provisions of the Codes, then, the provisions of the settlement that are favourable to the employee will continue to operate and the remainder of the provisions of...

The government set out trying to also bring about some small reform. However, it has succeeded only in complicating the matter no end. The proposed Industrial Relations Code, 2020 will take a lot of litigation to settle the questions that have been skirted. This is not what employers asked for when...

The labour laws have been made to do the injustice undone to workers by employers and not to allow the greedy charlatans to misuse them to harass the employers.

The Employees State Insurance Act, 1948, The Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 as well as under voluntary Insurance Policy obtained by the employer for his employees. The Employees Compensation Act, 1923 also requires a dependent from the prescribed list of family members to receive amount of...