Some important judgments of Oct, 2021.

• Sundays and holidays to be counted for 240 days working of any employee.
• Gratuity paid is exempted upto the prescribed ceiling under Income Tax act.
• Termination even for habitual absence must be as per the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
• Maternity Benefit only when the employee has put in 80 days of service.
• Principal Employer supervising employee of service provider has to extend maternity benefit.
• Without establishing employer-employee relationship raising demand for EPF dues is not sustainable.
• An employee exonerated by the police investigation would ne reinstated pending inquiry.
• Imposing damages, witjpout establishing mens rea or financial crises faced by employer, is not proper.
• Amount recovered by the EPF authority to be credited to the respective account of beneficiaries.