Many a times you might have been to an automobile service centre or to tire puncture repair shop and you moved on soon after paying the charges for the work of the mechanic. You might not have bothered to ask…
Contractual Employment – its benefits to employers
A contract labour is a person who is hired in connection with the work of an establishment by the principal employer through a contractor. A contractor is a person who supplies human resource to a principal employer. The issue of…
Does contractual employment hold something positive in store for employees?
Contractual Employment – From an Employee’s perspective The point ‘contractual employment v/s permanent employees’ has been a point of debate since a long time in India, but it is drawing more attention towards itself in the present scenario because of…
A Shop or a Factory Tests for its determination
Defining ‘Shop’ A Discussion on limits and extent of shop with reference to “The Maharashtra Shops and Establishments Act, 1948” In the age of digital manufacturing, the line between the physical and digital worlds is demolished to create a whole…
The Recent Rollback of E.P.F. REFORMs
The Employees’ Provident fund (‘EPF’ in short) was constituted in the year 1952 through an Act for the purpose of instituting provident fund, pension and deposit linked insurance fund for employees in factories and other establishments. In construing the provisions…
‘Factory’ in The Factories Act, 1948.
The definition of ‘Factory’ is given in section 2(m) of the Factories Act,1948. Section 2(m) defines the term ‘Factory’ as: – ‘Factory’ means: any premises or precincts thereof – (i) whereon 10 or more workers are working, or were working,…
THE CONSTITUTIONAL VALIDITY OF “ THE MINIMUM WAGES ACT,1948”.
India introduced the Minimum Wages Act in 1948, giving both the Central government and State government jurisdiction in fixing wages. The act is legally non-binding, but statutory. Payment of wages below the minimum wage rate amounts to forced labour. Wage…
