When employee did not respond to notices at his available address sent by employer for joining duty, also concealed his securing employment with other employer while challenging his termination, abandonment rightly presumed. Life Insurance Corporation of India & Ors. vs. Om Parkash. 2025 LLR 1...
The definition of “wages”, which is uniform across all four Labour Codes, is uncharacteristic of labour statutes. While the definition is pretty standard insofar as inclusion of certain components and exclusion of the others is concerned (and similar to the definitions under the...
With the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 (“OSH Code”) coming into force and subsuming the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (“CLRA”), the legal regime on contract labour has been structurally recast. With this recast, an...
Rules have specified the unskilled, semi skilled, skilled and highly skilled categories of employees , now, the wages have to be paid according to these categories.
The year 2025 marked a significant phase in the evolution of Indian labour and employment jurisprudence. Courts across India delivered several landmark decisions impacting employer-employee relations, disciplinary processes, contractual employment, service benefits, and the law relating to the...
Soulful Leadership is not merely a leadership book; it is a gentle yet powerful call to remember who we are before we became titles, roles, and KPIs. Drawing from ancient Indian wisdom and lived corporate experience, Vivek Padalia offers leaders a rare synthesis of spirituality, practicality, and...
