is Advocate, Supreme Court of India, New Delhi. He has also been former Law Teacher in University of Delhi.
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...
Author - H.L. Kumar
The order directing the college to pay huge damages is certainly liable to have interfered which are not maintainable and against the very statute under which the Commission was constituted. Also, the claim of the petitioner for compensation for premature termination of service was also rejected by...
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.
The Court has come down heavily on the employer, who dispensed with the services of an employee without holding any enquiry. The Court said that the constitution exists for the common man, for the poor and the humble, for those who have businesses at stake, for the butcher, the baker and...
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.
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.
The Code gives a fillip to the engagement of contract labour by granting an all-India licence for five years to a contractor hiring such labour. The introduction of "inspector cum facilitator" is going to be labour friendly.
In some countries, the governments are financially helping to self-employed women in this time of Corona. in India, this facility is available to all working women for 26 weeks, out of it they can avail, eight weeks before delivery. COVID 19 has, however, posed a very piquant situation for such...
Working alone and independently with just a computer screen to keep the company of an employee is vastly different from the collective environment of an office. It is a new concept and an experiment. For most of employees when working from home, it can be extremely stressful due to rotating between...
The government of India must, therefore, adopt a pragmatic and proactive attitude to ensure that economy should not be in the whirlwind. It must inform the Supreme Court that the wages for the lockdown period would be borne by the government in the interests of the employees, employers and the...
