Employee cannot appoint a lawyer as his defence representative merely because the Enquiry Officer is a lawyer.
2025 LLR WEB 455
KERALA HIGH COURT
Clauses limiting jurisdiction to one section of Courts in employment contracts are valid.
2025 LLR 594
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
Agent of the owner/occupier of the factory is also liable for violation of the provisions of the ESI Act.
2025 LLR 600
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
Insurer is not liable to reimburse penalty for delay in payment of accident compensation.
2025 LLR 591
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
Woman is entitled to maternity benefits even if she was on sanctioned leave during 3 months before delivery.
2025 LLR 629
KERALA HIGH COURT
Management can stop paying customary allowance if salary paid was more than minimum wages.
2025 LLR 644
ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT
Cess cannot be collected from the employer qua the supply contract / material supplied.
2025 LLR 641
CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT
Period spent as a probationer to be included in the length of service for the purpose of payment of gratuity.
2025 LLR 638
CALCUTTA HIGH COURT
ESI paid by principal employer to the employees of the contractor before the contractor obtained its code number would not make the contract sham.
2025 LLR 621
MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT
Employee cannot avoid contract at a subsequent stage merely because a term isn't beneficial for him.
2025 LLR 594
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
Workman cannot engage lawyer in enquiry even if management representative has a law degree.
2025 LLR 648
CALCUTTA HIGH COURT
Pension can be claimed before the authority under the Payment of Wages Act.
2025 LLR 617
CALCUTTA HIGH COURT
Minimum wages are not amenable to split up into basic and DA for the purposes of payment.
2025 LLR 644
ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT
Even an employee who is temporarily engaged is covered under the Employees Compensation Act.
2025 LLR 607
DELHI HIGH COURT
Employee cannot be terminated for embezzlement when the amount was misplaced due to negligence.
2025 LLR 631
ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT
No reinstatement of terminated employee when the contract was of personal service.
2025 LLR 651
MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT
Offer letter itself does not prove employment when it was not counter signed by employee.
2025 LLR 621
MADHYA PRADESH HIGH COURT
A person is not 'apprentice' under Apprentices Act in the absence of a written contract of apprenticeship.
2025 LLR 638
CALCUTTA HIGH COURT
Dismissal, merely on the basis of a preliminary enquiry, is invalid.
2025 LLR 613
HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT
CGIT can pass ex-parte ad interim orders restraining the EPFO from recovering dues.
2025 LLR 656
BOMBAY HIGH COURT
The EPF Authority cannot ask any employer to fix the salary in a particular manner.
2025 LLR 662
PUNJAB & HARYANA HIGH COURT
No employer-employee relationship when EPFO did not call the employees for identification.
2025 LLR 669
CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT
Entities cannot be clubbed together in the absence of them being branches or common management.
2025 LLR 667
KARNATAKA HIGH COURT
EPF Authority has to consider all case laws relied upon by the management before passing order.
2025 LLR 679
BOMBAY HIGH COURT
Employee list prepared by EPFO not admissible if identity of supervisor who signed it isn't ascertainable.
2025 LLR 693
PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT
Ex-parte order u/s 7A can be set aside within 3 months if employer shows sufficient cause.
2025 LLR 664
CALCUTTA HIGH COURT
Ongoing proceedings under EPF Act can't be interdicted merely because there was transfer of ownership.
2025 LLR 684
KERALA HIGH COURT
Employee's date of birth, for EPF purpose, cannot be changed after leaving service.
2025 LLR 695
MADRAS HIGH COURT
HC cannot regulate procedure followed by the CGIT while hearing appeals.
2025 LLR 656
BOMBAY HIGH COURT
Amount cannot be recovered when higher contribution was already made.
2025 LLR 686
CALCUTTA HIGH COURT
Establishment can seek exemption by granting more beneficial schemes such as GPF.
2025 LLR 700
GUJARAT HIGH COURT
Once default in payment of contribution is admitted, damages are consequential.
2025 LLR 684
KERALA HIGH COURT
Objection against virtual hearing cannot be taken later when it was not taken before the authority.
2025 LLR 661
KARNATAKA HIGH COURT
Principal employer not to pay PF dues of loading/unlo-ading labourers engaged through contractors.
2025 LLR 669
CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT
Contribution made beyond permissible limit will be deemed to have been accepted when no questions were asked by the establishment.
2025 LLR 686
CALCUTTA HIGH COURT
Order of EPF authority, rejecting claim of exemption under the wrong provision, is illegal.
2025 LLR 679
BOMBAY HIGH COURT
Establishment not covered under EPF Act will have to pay dues for employees of defaulting contractors.
2025 LLR 690
MADRAS HIGH COURT
Making a temporary employee work for 18 years is unfair labour practice and such an employee is entitled to regularisation.
2025 LLR WEB 448
CALCUTTA HIGH COURT
There is no ceiling or cap on the number of children to claim maternity benefit.
2025 LLR WEB 449
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
A person joining a private institution cannot claim his tenure as a matter of right.
2025 LLR WEB 450
DELHI HIGH COURT
Reliefs under the Industrial Disputes Act cannot be claimed from a civil court by filing suit.
2025 LLR WEB 451
PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT
Plantations are not required to provide special medical treatment to their workers.
2025 LLR WEB 452
GAUHATI HIGH COURT
Management would be liable to reinstate worker when it was not able to prove that the worker was employed through a contract and later rehired him as a daily wage worker.
2025 LLR WEB 453
DELHI HIGH COURT
Proviso to section 11A of the I.D. Act does not take away the right of the workman to adduce evidence on the grounds of bias or victimization.
2025 LLR WEB 454
GUJARAT HIGH COURT
The employer does not have the final say in forfeiture of gratuity as it is subject to adjudication by the competent authority.
2025 LLR WEB 456
MADRAS HIGH COURT
A settlement entered into between the management and the individual workman shall be termed as illegal and shall be ignored, if the industrial dispute relating to nonemployment was collectively raised.
2025 LLR WEB 457
MADRAS HIGH COURT
It is the duty of the vehicle owner to pay accident compensation as soon as personal injury was caused to the workman.
2025 LLR WEB 458
DELHI HIGH COURT
Writ challenging recovery of PF dues post resolution plan approval not maintainable when statutory remedy lies under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016.
2025 LLR WEB 459
MADRAS HIGH COURT
Employer has a right to withhold the gratuity during the pendency of the disciplinary proceedings.
2025 LLR WEB 460
MADRAS HIGH COURT
Continuous service exceeding 240 days entitles workman to regularisation under Tamil Nadu Permanent Status Act and settlement under ID Act cannot override statutory benefit.
2025 LLR WEB 461
MADRAS HIGH COURT
Management cannot approach writ court for restraining workmen from causing wrongful loss during agitation without any evidence.
2025 LLR WEB 462
MADRAS HIGH COURT
The liability to pay cess falls not only on the owner of the building or establishment, but the contractor as well.
2025 LLR WEB 464
SIKKIM HIGH COURT
Raising of dispute after 9 years of termination is not wrong when repeated promises of reinstatement were made.
2025 LLR WEB 465
GUJARAT HIGH COURT
No claim can be made against the principal employer when the employees admitted that they were employed with the contractor.
2025 LLR WEB 466
GUJARAT HIGH COURT
Gas Cylinder delivery personnel, when are indispensable to the establishment's functioning, would be 'employees'.
2025 LLR WEB 463
MADRAS HIGH COURT
