Corporate India is expected to offer a salary hike of 9.5 percent in 2025, similar to the 2024 actual salary increase, as companies are balancing optimism with caution, a report said on Tuesday. According to WTW’s latest Salary Budget Planning Report, the median salary increase in India is...
Ministry of Labour and Employment (“MoLE“) Social Security Division, through an office memorandum NO. S-65025/01/2024-SS-II dated 27.9.24 has declared that interns engaged under PM Internship Scheme would be employees under Labour Laws. Also read – Non-payment of outstanding...
Calcutta High Court in Dasrathbhai Narsangbhai Chaudhary vs. The State of West Bengal & Another, C.R.R. 1395 of 2022, held that the non-payment of outstanding salary or performance bonus does not constitute criminal offences under Sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of...
Bombay High Court in Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay vs. Tanaji Babaji Lad, W.P. 12746 OF 2024, upheld the order of the controlling authority under the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 (“Gratuity Act“), directing the principal employer to pay gratuity to contract labourers. The...
Orissa High Court in Dr. Kanishka Das vs. Union of India and others W.P.(C) No. 14616/2021, on October 4, 2024affirming that fact-finding inquiries are administrative processes aimed at gathering relevant information. The court emphasized that such inquiries are preliminary and not penal, which...
IT services company Wipro has mandated all employees to work from an office at least three days a week. Wipro Chief Human Resources Officer Saurabh Govil through email to employees announced the new policy emphasizing that employees will work from the office three days a week. Through a post on...
