labour service law

Jet Airways secured restraint order from Bombay High Court against any strike by its employees, after more than half of its pilots went on a mass sick leave forcing cancellation of about 190 flights by 1400 hrs.  Jet, in their plea, had termed the agitation as illegal. The airline was hit by a major crisis as it had to cancel 156 domestic and 32 in..

The State Bank of India (SBI) was not correct in denying an unrecognised SC/ST employees organisation's right to hold a dharna at its regional office here, though it had allowed a similar protest by some other forums earlier, the Madras High Court has said.  The bank authorities had rejected pe..

A total of 36 bonded labourers working in stone crushing units in Karur and Salem districts have walked free, thanks to a timely intervention of the Madras high court, which asked the authorities to rescue these labourers and rehabilitate them.  A division bench comprising Justice FM Ibrahim Ka..

Do you have an Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) membership? Then swipe your way to good health. The first set of `Pehchan' identity cards to ESIC beneficiaries was released on Tuesday by Union labour and employment minister Mallikarjun M Kharge.  "The government will give 30 a..

The Madras High Court has granted conditional bail to a person in a cheating case and said he should not practise either Siddha or Ayurveda.  He should not run the Thiruvangur Raja Vaidya Salai, either himself or with the help of relatives, until he produces authenticated documents issued by the competent medical council regarding his qualification and registration bef..

The city-based Thiruvancore Raja Vaidhya Salai, whose founder P Vijayakumar was arrested on July 16 for cheating and breach of trust, cannot be reopened unless authentication documents issued by competent authorities are furnished, the Madras High Court has ruled.  Justice KN Basha, granting co..

The Madras High Court has held that clerks, accountants and office assistants working in financial institutions and canvassing agents should not be prosecuted for offence under Section five of the Tamil Nadu Protection of Interest of Depositors (TNPID) Act.  It pointed out that they do not shoulder the responsibility for management or mismanagement of affairs of the fi..

The government on Thursday assured senior medical teachers that they would get revised wages in accordance with the UGC's recommendation for the Sixth Pay Commission.  About 250 medical teachers, belonging to the Sir JJ Group of Hospitals, took a mass casual leave on Thursday to protest against..

 The Tamil Nadu government's decision not to admit any male candidate for the diploma course in nursing received the judicial nod on Monday, with the Madras high court dismissing a writ petition challenging the new norms.  The government, which was allotting 10 per cent of the available se..

 Irked by the manner in which Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) filed an appeal without any relevant documents challenging a trial court's order, Delhi High Court on Thursday slammed the insurance company for the "careless attitude" of its officials for not verifying the documents properly befo..

The Madras High Court has made it clear that orders passed under the EPF Act and consequential orders of attachment, if any, issued by the EPFO, should be kept in abeyance under certain circumstances. The circumstances were- during the period of limitation prescribed under the EPF Appellate Tribunal (Procedure) Rules and EPF Act for preferring an appeal before the Appellate Tribunal or during..

Madras High Court has imposed a cost of Rs 20,000 on Chennai Municipal Corporation (CMC) and held that it was neither open to the authorities to evict cobblers for whom bunks had been constructed and allocated and whom the Corporation had given licence, nor to remove the bunks or refuse renewal of licences. The court said the sum should be paid to the Tamil Nadu State Legal..

The Supreme Court has held that a court cannot examine the integrity and service records of an employee while examining a transfer order passed by an employer. A bench of Justices Tarun Chatterjee and R M Lodha, while dismissing the appeal of one sub-registrar, who was under transfer from Ghaziabad to Hapur, noted that it is the exclusive prerogative of the state government..

 A bill seeking to provide more benefits to employees covered under Employees State Insurance scheme and their dependents in case of    sickness, maternity and e..

The Report of International Labour Organisation released in May, 2009 under the heading ‘The cost of coercion’ mentions about the existence of bonded labourers in India. The report mentions existence of forced labour in brick kilns of Tamil Nadu. It ..