labour service law

Christmas cheer has come early for foreign nationals working in India. They can now take their entire post-tax salaries home, following a change in rules to this effect by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).  This will benefit sectors such as aviation, telecom and infrastructure, which employ a large number of expats, making it easier for them to attract talent fr..

Monday, November 30, 2009: Thirty three (33) Regional Labour Commissioners (Central) [RLC(C)], 05 at Chief Labour Commissioner (C) Headquarter, and the other twenty eight (28) in the field offices, have been appointed to look into among other works, the complaints received ..

Labour Minister Malillikarjun Kharge moved for passing in the Lok Sabha the Workmen's Compensation (Amendment) Act, 1923, which seeks to improve upon the compensation package for various categories of workers and their dependents in case of accidents causing either death or disablement. Speaking on the Bill, Mr Kharge said even the low..

The Central Administrative Tribunal has ruled that the disciplinary proceedings against a government employee can be invalidated if there is "inordinate and unexplained" delay in initiating the same. The tribunal passed the order while deciding on a petition filed by P K Mathur, a retired superintendent engineer of CPWD. Mathur had challenged the departmental proceedings initiated ag..

he Nagaland Government has issued a fresh memorandum on the implementation of the Nagaland Retirement from Public Employment (Second Amendment) Act, 2009, as there was no stay order from the Supreme Court on the implementation of the Act.  Official sources here today said the memorandum issued by Chief Secreta..

Hearing a petition demanding the appointment of a person other than a bureaucrat as the Chief Information Commissioner, the Delhi High Court said it was not necessary that all government officials were incompetent. A bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice S Murlidhar refused to accept the plea by an NG..

Disciplinary proceedings against a government employee can be quashed if there is "inordinate and unexplained" d..

Discretionary relaxation or alteration in requisite eligibility qualification, relating to appointments or admissions, can..

The Madras High Court dismissed a batch of writ petitions, challenging a Government Order (GO) issued by the Tamil Nadu Government that seeks denial of consequential seniority to police officials who were given out-of-turn promotion for gallantry service.  The police officials Sitrarasu and 11 others filed a w..

 Patna High Court ordered the Bihar government to reinstate about 1,000 employees of state health department, who were earlier terminated on grounds of illegal appointment. Justice Mridula Mishra ordered the state government after hearing the petition of the affected staff. They pleaded be..

 A bill that will seek diversity profiling of employees in public and private sectors to help in better recruitment of the disadvantaged people is to be introduced in Parliament during the coming Winter Sess..

Former Union Law Ministers Ram Jethmalani, Shanti Bhushan and eminent jurists Fali S Nariman and Anil Diwan have written a letter to Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice K G Balakrishnan requesting him to hold an inquiry before elevating the Chief Justice of a High Court to the Supreme Court.  For elevation to the apex court, the Supreme Court collegium, headed by the ..

The government has extended Dasara gift to its 5 lakh-odd employees. All staffers will get medical facilities prescribed under the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS).  The cabinet on Tuesday decided to revise rates of employees' medical treatment by amending Karnataka Government Servants' ..

Brushing aside preliminary objections from Jet Airways, Madras High Court on Thursday decided to entertain two public interest writ petitions filed by the airline's pilot union, National Aviators Guild (NAG), and issue notice to the Jet management.  One of the petitions sought to cancel permiss..

The Bombay high court on Thursday got tough with the state government and directed it to produce within 24 hours the list of 670 child labourers it claimed to have rescued. A bench, headed by Justice Bilal Nazki, said the treatment being meted out to children after they were rescued was "a terrible thing'' and told..