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  What is Sexual Harassment at Workplace: In Visakha Judgment, the Supreme Court defines sexual harassment at workplace. The Vishaka judgement provides the basic definition of sexual harassment at the workplace. According to the ..

  Coverage of Employees under Provident Fund Act H.L. Kumar, Advocate (Supreme Court), New Delhi. The Government takes a month’s salary from an employee and asks his employer to pay another month’s salary every year and buries their contributions in a fund of its own called Employees’ Provident Fund. Bu..

 In many cases on behalf of employee a ground is taken that during inquiry proceedings, certain documents were not supplied to him and thus the inquiry proceedings are bad in Law as there..

The legal position has been crystallized in number of judgments that transfer is an incidence of service and transfers are made according to administrative exigencies. In   Gujaratspan style="mso-spacerun: y..

Ordinarily, a court would not interfere with the findings of the Enquiry Officer. He is entitled to draw his own inference and so long as the inference drawn by him is supported by some materials on record, it is well settled that a Court of judicial review would not..

In State Bank of India v. S.S. Kosal 1994 AIR SCW 2901 the supreme court held that where the Disciplinary Authority disagreed with the findings of th..

 Semantic luxuries are misplaced in the interpretation of 'bread and butter' statutes. Welfare statutes must, of necessity, receive a broad interpretation. Where legislation is designed to give relief against certain kinds of mischief, the Court is not to make inroads by making etymological excursions. 'Void ab initio' invalid and inoperative' or call it what you will, the workmen and the ..

In a bunch of appeals, in State of Rajasthan v. Jagdish Narain Chaturvedi (civil appeal no 3620/2009 ) decided on 08/05/2009, the apex court has held that p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5i..

The history of labour struggle is nothing but a continuous demand for a fair return to labour expressed in varied forms i.e. (a ) Increase in wages, (b) Resistance to decrease in wages, and (c) grant of allowances and benefits etc. If a labourer wants to achieve these gains individually, he fails because of his weaker bargaining power, the management with the better economic background stands in a..

The expression "posts" and "vacancies," often used in the executive instructions providing for reservations, are rather problematical. The word "Post" means ..

PF: 1. The Employees Provident Fund Scheme, 1952 2. The Employees Family Pension Scheme, 1971 3. The Employees Deposit-Linked Insurance Scheme, 1976 Calculations: P.F from Basic Employee: 12% (P.F) Employer: 3.67% Provident Fund (A/c 1) + 8.33% Pension (A/c 10) + 1.10% Admin Charges on PF (A/c 2) + 0.50% EDLI (A/c 21) + 0.01% Admin Charges on EDLI (A/c 22) =>13.61% on basic * Pensio..

 Compliance With Labour & Retrenchment Laws in India - Hire & Fire Policy of the Indian IT Industry By Seema Jhingan   One of the most critical need of the burgeoning Indian software industry and other outsourcing service providers is to have the flexibility and the independence to hire the most worthy of the manpower and fire the unproductive..

 Importance Of Employment Contracts - Know Their Value By Abhishek Agarwal    Anyone who works for an employer for a regular wage or salary automatically has a contract of employment, regardless of whether it is written or not. The majority of employees work under open-ended contracts of employment. In other words, the contract continues until su..

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