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India’s invisible workforce gets a new safety net: Key labour reforms for migrant employees decodedIndia's inter-state migrant workers gain significant protections under new labour code rules notified on May 8, 2026. The Occupational Safe...
Can you be fired from job despite achieving your annual target? Know what the labour law saysMeeting annual targets doesn't guarantee job security in the private sector. Labour laws, particularly the Industrial Disputes Act, offer p...
Asked to work beyond office hours? Know your rights under new Labour CodeIndian employees are often verbally instructed to work beyond mandated hours, a practice normalized but not legal. While the new Labour Cod...
Laid off by Oracle? Here’s how to calculate your severance pay and legal entitlementsIn India, many employees who laid-off by their respective companies remain unaware of their legal rights. The article clarifies notice peri...
After 16-year legal battle, employee wins compensation claim for workplace accident earlier rejected over disability certificate issued by non-treating doctorThe Bombay High Court ruled in favor of an employee denied compensation for a workplace accident. The court held that a disability certific...
NCLAT to wait for the outcome of SC petitions to decide on Jet Airways’ bidder JKC caseThe National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) will decide the status of Jet Airways bidder Jalan Kalrock Consortium after the Supreme...
RPF personnel can be treated as 'workman' for compensation purposes: SCA bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Manoj Misra dismissed an appeal filed by a commanding officer of the Railway Protection Special Force...
No priority for worker dues after liquidation under IBC"The waterfall mechanism is based on a structured mathematical formula, and the hierarchy is created in terms of payment of debts in order ...
Lay offs are deemed illegal if not carried as per Industrial Disputes Act: Minister Bhupender YadavAmid reports of mass layoffs by several firms, including in the IT sector, Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Thursday said ...
Liability to pay compensation on death of worker arises immediately after demise: SCIn the verdict, the apex court dealt with the provisions of the Employee's Compensation Act, 1923 while coming to the rescue of a family wh...
GM India to lay off 1,419 workmen at Talegaon plant, invokes section 25 of Industrial Dispute ActThe move may prolong a legal tussle between the company and its employees on the winding of General Motors India’s Talegaon plant on the ou...
Lok Sabha passes Employee’s Compensation (Amendment) Bill 2016The bill also provides for increase in penalty for contravention of the Act to Rs 50,000 from the current Rs 5000 that may be later raised ...
Oil Country Tubular to shut operations, may relocate unit from TelanganaThe drastic step by OCTL, part of the Rs 5,000 crore Kamineni group with in` terests in healthcare and medical education, could render hund...
- NCP demands policy for compensation to EGS workers
NCP today demanded that the Maharashtra government should frame a policy for compensating labourers who meet with accidents or death while ...
- UIICL plans to deploy 50,000 agents countrywide
United India Insurance Company Ltd (UIICL) has said it plans to deploy 50,000 agents across the country in the next couple of years to stre...
- Coal India Ltd workers to get life cover
Coal India Ltd workers will get Rs 1,12,800 life cover from the coal companies, m inister of state for coal Pratik Prakashbapu Patil said o...
- Centre clears welfare sops for workers
The Union Cabinet has approved amendments to the Workmen’s Compensation (Amendment) Act of 2000 to expand the definition of ‘workers’ to co...