labour service law

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A government servant holding a transferable post has no right to remain posted at one place as per his choice, the Delhi High Court has said.  "Transfer of an employee is not only an incidence inherent in terms of his appointment but is also implicit as an essential condition of service in..

 Delhi Government’s standing counsel Mukta Gupta told the Delhi High Court that the Unorganised Workers Social Security Act came into force on May 16, 2009 and will take care of all the grievances of the household workers who are being exploited by various placement agencies. Hearing a petition filed by an NGO which sought the court’s intervention to make l..

The Supreme Court issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh government on a petition filed by a member of Uttar Pradesh State Human Rights Commission, challenging his removal from the post. A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan issued notices after hearing the counsel for J S Yadav who contended that the Mayawati government brought the impugned notification with malafi..

On the basis of licenses obtained by various contractors of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and Commonwealth Games sites, the total number of construction workers engaged for Delhi Metro and Commonwealth Games sites are 20,364 and 11,089 respectively. ..

The number of employees covered under ESI Scheme and details of the amount of contribution income, State-wise is as per the Table given below:..

An Expert Committee has been constituted in June, 2009 for reviewing the Employees’ Pension Scheme, 1995. The Committee headed by the Special Secretary (Labour and Employment) consist of actuaries, experts from social security and insurance sectors and sta..

In a recognition that adopted infants need the same care and attention from their new parents as bloodline children, the Centre has decided to provide `child adoption leave' of 15 days to male government servants and extend maternity leave of women employees from the existing 135 days to 180 days — en..

Calcutta High Court today rejected the private transport operators plea seeking an extension of the deadline to phase out 15-year-old vehicles in a bid to minimise air pollution. The High Court had issued an order on July 18, 2008, that private commercial transport vehicles which were 15 years old and above would not be allowed to run beyond March 31 this year, but the cour..

The Government should introduce amendments to labour laws to protect the rights of workers in the new globalisation regime, the Labour Law Practitioners Association (LLPA) of the Madras High Court has said. In a letter to the Union Minister for Law and Justice, M Veerappa Moily, L L P A president N G R Prasad, has said the amendments, some of which could be effected by pass..

The Madras High Court has held that there was no illegality in the appointment of Dr M S Ananth as Director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.  In its order yesterday allowing writ appeals challenging a single Judge’s order, a Division Bench, comprising Justices S J Mukhopadhaya and V Dhanapalan, said it found that a full deliberation had been made by..

Treating a petition against the recent strike by resident doctors in Maharashtra as a PIL, the Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court has issued notices to the Medical Council of India (MCI) and state government over the agitation. Besides the state government and the MCI, a Division Bench consisting of Justice A P Lavande and Pramod Kode, which is hearing the petition, also iss..

The Government had signed Labour Agreements with Jordan and Qatar in 1980s. Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, after its creation in 2004, has made concerted efforts to enter into bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with all the major receiving Countri..

Central Government is the appropriate authority for enforcement of the Child Labour(Prohibition & Reg..

 As per census 2001, 314.54 million persons moved for various reasons within the country. Out of these, 29.90 million migrated for reasons of employment.  Regarding Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment ..