labour service law

Mumbai, Feb 5 (PTI) The Bombay High Court today set aside the appointment of senior IPS officer Anami N Roy as Maharashtra's Director General of Police, terming it as contrary to law. The court also asked the state government to appoint a new DGP in four weeks. Roy was appointed to the top post in February last year. Another IPS officer Suprakash Chakravarti had filed an application be..

Law Set-aside, Child Labourers Toil At SMC Fair 24 Jan 2009, 2312 hrs IST, Yagnesh Mehta, TNN Text: SURAT: It was an irony of sorts at Surat Municipal Corporation- organised Vidya-Suman-IT (book, horticulture and information technology) fairs here on Saturday. While hundreds of children were participating in drawing competition, there were some others working at stalls at the..

32 LABOURERS GET NEW LEASE OF LIFE 23 Jan 2009, 0800 hrs IST, TNN Text: MOHALI: A day after 31 bonded labourers were rescued from a brick kiln in Jouli village of Derabassi, another 32 labourers were rescued from Manakpur Sharif village in Kharar on Thursday. Acting on the directions of Punjab and Haryana High Court to release seven families from the brick kiln, SDM Rajiv G..

An employee can be sacked if he or she is found to have made false claims about one's antecedents at the time of joining a new job, the Supreme Court has ruled. According to the apex court it is obligatory on the part of the employee concerned to give a correct account of one's conviction or involvement in any criminal trial, if the rules related to the appointment specifically insist on such..

Labour Unions Don't Have Public Trust 19 Jan 2009, 0205 hrs IST, TNN PUNE: "Over a period of time, the nature of strikes by labour unions have changed tremendously," said Michael Goldfield, a professor at the Wayne State University in Detroit (USA). Goldfield visited the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE) and presented his study on the failure of US' southern textile..

SC Cautions Power Corp. Not To Burden Ordinary Consumer 1/18/2009 The Supreme Court has cautioned power corporations to discourage formation of cartels so that electricity charges do not go up unnecessarily burdening the ordinary consumer. A bench comprising Justices S B Sinha and Cyriac Joseph while acquitting the Managing Director of the Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Ltd (M..

Delhi HC To Hear Anil Nanda's Plea In Escorts Status 1/17/2009 The Delhi High Court agreed to hear the plea of industrialist Anil Nanda against turning the Delhi-based Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre Limited (EHIRCL) into a limited company from a charitable institution. Justices Mukul Mudgal and Manmohan set aside the order passed by single judge bench of the High Court on July ..

MP HC Directs Health Secy To Inquire Into PVT Nursing Homes 1/14/2009 The Madhya Pradesh High Court issued directions to the state Health Secretary and the district administration to inquire into private nursing homes running without licence and take action under the Nursing Homes Rules, 2008. Hearing a petition filed by the Nagrik Upbhokta Marg Darshak Manch’s P G Najpande challenging ir..

HC reinstates Hima Mylliem SyiemSHILLONG: The Shillong Bench of the Gauhati High Court on Friday stayed the recent order of KHADC suspending the Syiem of Hima Mylliem Latho Manik Syiem. The High Court order came in response to a petition filed by Mr Manik against his suspension by KHADC. Sources said Mr Manik would resume office as the Syiem of Hima Mylliem on January 12. ..

43 CHILD WORKERS RESCUED : SECUNDERABAD (AP) 31 Dec 2008, 0410 hrs IST, TNN HYDERABAD: Forty-three child workers, including girls, were rescued during a joint operation by the labour department and National Child Labour Project (NCLP) in Secunderabad on Tuesday. The 43 children were employed at various jewellery shops in Chikoti Complex, General Bazaar in Secunderabad. Depu..

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has held that an employee is not entitled to arrears if he or she is promoted with retrospective effect.Justice S N Aggarwal passed the order on a petition filed by an employee of India Tourism Development Corporation, seeking court's direction to the government to grant her arrears for the period during which she was denied promotion and was later given pro..

OPERATIONALIZATION OF RSBY AND PASSING OF UNORGANISED WORKERS’ SOCIAL SECURITY BILL ARE THE HIGHLIGHTS OF 2008 18:12 IST YEAR END REVIEW –08 The passing of the Unorganized Sector Workers’ Social Security Bill, 2008 by the Parliament, the operationalization of the ‘Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) in 12 States, the upgradation of ITIs, the expansion of the National Child Labour Project (..

Chennai: The Madras high court has quashed the dismissal of a Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) officer, who sought to contest in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections without obtaining permission from the authorities. He had, however, made efforts later to withdraw the nomination after the management denied him permission. Debating whether it was the employee’s political right or misconduct on his p..

Allahabad, Dec 8 (IANS) The Allahabad High Court Monday ordered reinstatement of 18,000 policemen whose services were terminated by the Mayawati government shortly after she assumed office in 2007. A single-judge bench of Justice D.P.Singh, who was hearing the case and kept his judgement reserved for the past four months, gave the verdict Monday afternoon. Recruited during the previous regim..

NHRC has directed Aligarh District Administration in Uttar Pradesh to submit within 4 weeks its report on the rampant child labour by the lock industry. NHRC in its order issued yesterday has taken serious note of its study carried out by Aligarh Muslim University and investigation carried out by a leading English daily from New Delhi alleging that around 14 thousand children in the age group o..