Advocate at Labour & Employment Law, New Delhi
The idea behind the changed provisions on strike in new Labour Codes is clear. The days of frequent strikes are over, though not totally prohibited. Frequent, unreasonable, and illegal strikes have kept the productivity of the industry and growth of the nation very low.
State regulates the industrial relations through statutory provisions. These provisions keep evolving with the need and exigencies from time to time. Author discusses some salient provisions on the role of the State on regulation of industrial relations in India from time to time.
A lot has been written about new four Labour Codes about its implications and impact on industries and workforce. In this article Author throws light on certain untouched areas of labour codes which seem having element of ambiguity which could have been removed at the earlier stage, confusion and...
Moonlighting is a case of conflict of interest with the employer's business. The normal term and condition of employment restrains employee to take up any other work while from employee's point of view, moonlighting is simply doing extra hard work, without compromising and adversely affecting the...
We are passing through an era of new changes in many areas and changes in existing archaic labour laws also is contentiously on the anvil. It is hoped that the idea of 4 days working, if so, would be based on a thoughtful consideration of its pros and cons.
Author in the article makes a case of challenges as mentioned, besides others, entails a need to re-visit the provisions of the Act to make them holistic, clear, practical and more effective.
The Employees State Insurance Act, 1948, The Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 as well as under voluntary Insurance Policy obtained by the employer for his employees. The Employees Compensation Act, 1923 also requires a dependent from the prescribed list of family members to receive amount of...
Their life-style has become such that they cannot afford any delay, let alone any loss or cut, in receiving their full pay-packet credited in their bank accounts every month on time. EMIs of their house, car, white goods, children's school fee etc. are linked to their salary credited on time in...
The said two provisos and the explanation to the definition of wages are being seen as devoid of reasonability, practicality, necessity and logic; and are likely to open floodgate of their different interpretations and calculations when introduced.
The wage structuring process will become further difficult in case the components of wages are linked on per cent basis to the Basic pay. This kneejerk kind of action and reaction will not stop, and a final wage structure is difficult to achieve.
People Movement
