Labour Law

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...

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...

If an employee did not question her first or second extensions, she is not entitled to challenge the consequences of her poor assessment at belated stage at the time of termination of her services on account of unsatisfactory performance.

Their life-style has become such that they cannot afford any delay, let alone any loss or cut, in receiving their full pay-packet credited in their bank accounts every month on time. EMIs of their house, car, white goods, children's school fee etc. are linked to their salary credited on time in...

Tall claims have been made by the government that the labour reforms will make the ease of doing business. Hence emphasis was laid on the appointment of 'fixed term employee' who will not have job security like an employee who happened to be a 'workman' under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.

The said two provisos and the explanation to the definition of wages are being seen as devoid of reasonability, practicality, necessity and logic; and are likely to open floodgate of their different interpretations and calculations when introduced.

In any case, the miserable life of workers is not going to be over because their targets will always remain high. In any case, the world community will have to raise voice against the excruciating slavery through which the workers have to undergo in China.