Indian iPhone Factory shutdown: Women led protest against worm-filled food
Foxconn, a key supplier for the likes of Apple and Xiaomi, has been in the midst of a major protest led by women workers of its plant near Chennai in India.
The workforce of the plant protested against several lapses in the living standards, including crowded dormitories, toilets without running water and inedible food...Read More
Thousands of highly educated Indians — many with business or engineering degrees interviewed for a handful of menial Government jobs in central Madhya Pradesh State at the weekend, amid a worsening pandemic crisis in the country.
More than 11,000 hopefuls gathered outside Gwalior District Court to compete for 15 positions as security guards, drivers, street sweepers and office helpers....Read More
App-based workers federation serves writ petition to Zomato, Swiggy, Ola, Uber India Food aggregator Zomato informed stock exchanges on Wednesday about a writ petition in the nature of public interest litigation (PIL) before the Supreme Court of India from the Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT).
The IFAT, formed in September 2019, is a workers’ organisation...Read More
HR managers have started to think ahead and plan systematically for 2022
The year 2020 sounded a wake-up call to businesses—big and small—that digital transformation is no longer a wait and watch phenomenon but has become an imperative for survival and reinventing themselves. While functions that are customer facing or are directly supporting markets were prioritized for digital investments,...Read More
In October, EPFO announced the declaration of the rate of interest for the Employees’ Provident Fund Members accounts for the year 2020-21.
Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has credited an interest rate of 8.50 per cent in 23.44 crore account holders for the financial year (FY) 2020-21, the retirement fund body announced today on its official Twitter handle.
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Chhattisgarh High Court, Narendra Kumar Vyas, J., quashed the FIR registered against the petitioner by Respondent 4 at Women Police Station, Bilaspur (C.G.) for commission of offence punishable under Section 354(A) IPC and Section 3 (1)(xii) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.
The facts of the prosecution are such that the petitioner is...Read More
The Supreme Court observed that the payment of price is an essential part of a sale.
If a sale deed in respect of an immovable property is executed without payment of price and if it does not provide for the payment of price at a future date, it is not a sale at all in the eyes of law, the bench comprising Justices Ajay Rastogi and Abhay S. Oka said.
The court also observed that a document...Read More
Case Name: Caparo Engineering India Ltd. V. Ummed Singh Lodhi And Anr.| Civil Appeal Nos.5829-5830 Of 2021
Citation: LL 2021 SC 625
Coram: Justices MR Shah and AS Bopanna
The Supreme Court has observed that Fourth Schedule and Section 9A of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 would be attracted if transfer of workmen results in change of service conditions and nature of work.
Section 9A...Read More
Following the shutdown of Hotel Hyatt Regency on June 7, 200-odd employees of the hotel approached the industrial court and labour commissioner seeking protection from termination.
Hyatt is an American hospitality company that manages and franchises luxury and business hotels. It is managing the Mumbai property on a contract basis on behalf of Asian Hotels (West).
A labour court has ruled...Read More
The central board of trustees meets in March to announce the interest rate for the financial year, and the proposal is then forwarded to the finance ministry for ratification.
The Finance Ministry has ratified the interest rate of 8.5 percent, which Central Board of PF Trustees (CBT of EPFO) had approved in March, for the financial year 2020-21.
Though the announcement was made before Diwali,...Read More
