The judicial pronouncements by the Supreme Court and High Courts are reported in numerous official and non-official journals and Government Gazettes and the like with the result that their quick reference is a difficult and tedious affair. To facilitate this ‘Labour Law Digest (2022)’ in...
The importance of welfare legislations, especially in the field of labour laws cannot be over emphasized. This is proved by the high number of instances in which the Factories Act and other labour legislations are invoked and the number of cases delivered by the various courts in the country which...
Book Review Section
Commentaries on Employees’ Provident Funds And Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952
It was due to the increase in the number of cases as well as the various interpretations to the different provisions of the enactment given by these cases that the revised and update edited of this book Commentaries on Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952with the latest...
Xiaomi India is slashing its workforce to less than 1,000 employees as part of a restructuring process, according to a report published in Economic Times. The report indicates that the cost-cutting measures come amid a slump in market share accompanied by increasing scrutiny from government...
Raghunathan KE, EPFO Board member representing employers, said that the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) will make sure that all Byju’s employees get their provident fund (PF) dues (if pending), attempting to allay fears of employees according to report of Nikhil Patwardhan published by...
Byju’s, the ed-tech firm has been accused by a number of former employees of not depositing the provident fund (PF) portion of their pay into the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) account, according to media reports. The EPFO portal data also shows that the firm hasn’t been in compliance...
Rajasthan High Court in Shashi Bala Meena vs. Punjab National Bank through its Managing Director-Cum-Chief Executive Officer &Ors. (S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 7612/2015) held that imposing punishment of compulsory retirement on the employee who wilfully remain absent without leave after...
Kerala High Court in State of Kerala &Ors. vs. Seena M. (OP (KAT) No. 95 of 2023) held that excess payment that was carelessly or negligently granted to an employee by an employer cannot be recovered, particularly when the employee had no knowledge that the amount that was paid was more than...
Allahabad High Court in Kul Bhushan Mishra vs. State of UP (Writ- A No.- 10209 of 2023) while examining the validity of the employer’s transfer policy wherein employer has imposed certain restrictions and conditions for the employees requesting for transfer held that the employee cannot claim...
Calcutta High Court in Kaushik Ghosh & Ors. vs. The State of West Bengal &Ors. (MAT 163 of 2021), on June 21, 2023, although upheld the view taken by the lower court wherein it was held that appointment of temporary workers cannot be regularized unless they are appointed in accordance with...
