When you land at Mumbai’s airport, you can book a prepaid taxi service. You’ll find a separate counter if you want a woman driver. It is meant for women passengers who prefer to have a female driver for that extra assurance of safety.
Presumably, if an equivalent option were available to men, it would have gone unnoticed.
What took so long for women-driven airport cabs to be...Read More
A bench of Justice Ravindra Ghuge has accordingly ordered the automobile giant to pay compensation to the 52 employees, who moved the HC challenging the orders of an Industrial Court in Pune, refusing any relief to them.
In a setback for Tata Motors, the Bombay High Court has held that the company resorted to unfair labour practices with thousands of its temporary workers by recruiting them...Read More
The inclusive approach, in the Indian manufacturing sector increasing now since after P&G, ABB extends similar benefits to LGBTQ couples and co-habiting partners, adoptive, and surrogacy commissioning parents.
ABB India has announced a gender-neutral and inclusive parental program recognizing the need for both parents to be present with their newborns or a new adoptive child under...Read More
The EPFO had amended the scheme in 2014 to cap monthly pensionable basic wages to ₹15,000.
Retirement Fund body EPFO is mulling a new pension product for organised sector workers who are getting basic wages of more than ₹15,000 per month and are not mandatorily covered under its Employees’ Pension Scheme 1995 (EPS-95).
At present, all those employees in the organised...Read More
Section 80JJAA : Tax Deduction for Employment of New Employees;
Problem of unemployment is not a small problem for any country. This particular section was introduced by Govt. in Income Tax Act to generate more employment and to encourage people. Lets have a look at this blog and you can plan the recruitment process to claim a huge amount of deduction of additional employment cost.
What is...Read More
A Demonstration Representative, working on Commission basis, is a Workman under section 2(s) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 if his work was incidental to the main job of the Industry.
Commission paid to the Cintractual Employee is also remuneration since the same is paid against utilisation of service of the employee.
Commission is only a form of pay and can not escape the satisfaction...Read More
The EPFO ought to ensure that indiscriminate communications to clients of defaulting employers and freezing orders of bank accounts are not written so as to jeopardies the business interests of employers.
The EPFO may take less stringent steps such as debit-freeze etc. as a first step for achieving the purpose. Freezing of bank accounts ought to be resorted to in exceptional circumstances...Read More
High Court of J&K and Ladakh has held that maternity leave up to 180 days cannot be claimed by every woman employee.
Deciding a petition filed by a lady doctor working in SKIMS Soura here, a bench of Justice Muhammad Akram Chowdhary pointed out that the employer has to keep in mind the nature of duties of such employees as well. The doctor had challenged an order of the tertiary...Read More
The government is mulling a high limit on allowances at 75-80% of the wages of an employee in the first year of the roll-out of the labour code on wages. This could gradually be brought down to 50% over three years, as specified in the code, people familiar with the deliberations told ET.
The other major change under consideration is restoration of the threshold on the number of employees in...Read More
The Writ Petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act, 2020 was heard by the Punjab and Haryana High Court today. After hearing Adv. Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General of India on behalf of the State of Haryana, the High Court admitted the Writ Petition and granted a stay on the operation of the Act.
This Act is regarding compulsory...Read More
