The Supreme Court on 12.5.23 took strong exception to the fact that even a decade after the enactment of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act of 2013 (POSH Act), there remained serious lapses in its effective enforcement [Aureliano Fernandes v. State...
(ANI): The pilots’ union of Air India has withdrawn its opposition to the new wage pact and employment agreement. In a joint letter issued on Thursday, the Indian Pilots’ Guild (IPG) and Indian Commercial Pilots’ Association (ICPA) withdrew their stand and told their members that...
Prasanth Nair has joined Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Ltd. as Chief Human Resources Officer. Prasanth will be responsible for strengthening the company’s employee experience, leading talent management as well as supporting the diversity & inclusion initiative to build Crompton as an...
Remote, the leader in building, managing, and supporting global distributed workforces, today announced that Barbara Matthews has joined as its Chief People Officer. In her role, she owns the strategic planning, implementation, and scalability of the company through its distributed team around the...
The Supreme Court on Monday in the case of Calcutta State Transport Corporation vs. Ashit Chakraborty & Ors. said that an employee can’t be denied a pension just because there were some wrong deductions on the part of the employer. A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Rajesh Bindal said...
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EPFO enables employees to delete and re-submit application for validation of option/joint option
On May 3, 2023, the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (“EPFO”) vide circular dated 3.5.23 informed about insertion of a ‘delete application’ button in its online functionality to provide employees a mode to correct errors in their application for validation of...
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Employer is not entitled to terminate employee summarily on ground of suppression of material facts: Bombay HC
Bombay High Court in Buddeshwar S/o Babulal Lilhare vs. Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company &Ors [Writ Petition No. 4925 of 2019],on April 29, 2023, observed that the decision of terminating employment of the employee on the ground that he suppressed the pendency of a singular...
Delhi High Court in Nina Lath Gupta Union of India, Through Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting & Anr. 2023:DHC:2944on May 1, 2023 reiterated the settled principle that if an order of termination of employment is founded on allegations, the order is stigmatic and punitive and...
Supreme Court in Moser Baer Karamchari Union vs. Union of India [Writ Petition (C) No. 421 of 2019] on May 2, 2023, observed that the workmen dues will not get priority over other debts in case of liquidation of a company under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (“IBC“). The Court...
(PTI): The government has denied Ranjan Kumar Mohapatra an eight-month extension of service as director (human resources) of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) till his superannuation age, the company said on Wednesday. Mohapatra was appointed director (HR) of India’s largest oil company in...
