Employment Law

As per the International Labour Organisation, “social security”i is the protection which is provided to the employees through a series of measures to counter against the economic and social distress resulting from sickness, maternity, employment injury, old age, and death. The Code on Social Sec...

Training a new employee is commonly known concept in the industry. Depending on the organization’s requirements, the employer intends to coach the new employee, in order to suit the services offered by the organization and achieve better performance of services. However, as a general industry prac...

The Indian labour laws currently do not have any specific codified guidelines around a temporary/permanent ‘work from home’ arrangement for any establishment. As such, the rules and regulations pertaining to any permanent/temporary ‘work from home’ arrangement are completely governed by the ...

The Atmanirbhar Bharat Rozgar Yojana (the “Scheme”) is introduced to incentivise the employment opportunities during the COVID recovery phase. The Scheme will benefit (i) the new employee joining the EPFO registered establishments on monthly wages less than Rs. 15000/- after October 1, 2020 and ...

In the past year or so, we have seen important amendments to the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (“EPF Act”) and the various schemes formulated under it. These amendments brought about significant changes impacting employee-employer. 1. Interpretation of t...

COVID-19 pandemic doomed the world economy and brought almost all industries and trades to a standstill. Reduced demand of goods and services led to a long-lasting economic impact. With impending retrenchment, job losses, wage cuts and lay-offs, the government swiftly swung into action to safeguard ...