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• Jharkhand – Minimum Wages – 14-10-2024
• Puducherry – Declaration holiday on occasion of Diwali – 28-10-2024
• Maharashtra – Declaration election holiday due general election – 20-10-2024
• New Delhi – Timely disbursement of pension of EPS 95 pensioners – 25-10-2024
• New Delhi – Rationalization of Regional Offices under Bengaluru Zone along with opening of two (02) new offices in EPF – 25-10-2025
• Haryana – submission of EMI ER-II Returns – 23-10-2024
• Tamil Nadu – Minimum Wages – 23-10-2024
• Madhya Pradesh – Minimum Wages – 23-10-2024
• Goa – List of Holidays – 24-10-2024
• Kerala – Minimum Wages – 21-10-2024
• Chhattisgarh – List of Holidays – 15-10-2024
• New Delhi – Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Amendment) Rules – 16-10-2024
• Cooperative Societies are not excluded from the ambit of the Kerala Co-operative Societies Act.
• Principal employer is duty bound to deduct and deposit provident fund in PF of employer, if contractor does not possess PF account.
• Funding has nothing to do with the criminal prosecution sought under the BOCW Act.
• Summons can be issued against the occupier only after establishing prima facie violation of the Factories Act.
• No appeal can be filed against the order of the Compensation Commissioner on the question of monthly wages of the deceased employee.
• Once the PF account has become inoperative, no interest can be accrued.
• Even if the employee accepted the compensation amount, he can still question the validity of the retrenchment.
• Mere completion of 240 days of service cannot be a factor for granting of benefit of permanency to temporary employees.
• Dispute touching the business of a society cannot be intermingled with the dispute pertaining to employment.
• It will always be presumed that the workman has worked continuously, unless the contrary is proved.
• There is no manner in which a person can prove he is unemployed because the negative cannot be established.
• There is no prohibition against the principal employer or the contractor agreeing that one of them would reimburse the other discharge of the statutory liability under the Cess Act.
• Application for suspension of long-term suspension, even in sexual harassment cases, should be taken into consideration by the authorities.

LATEST JUDGMENTS

• Jurisdiction for recovery of money under the Working Journalists Act is determined by situs of the cause of action, including where a substantial part of employment occurred.
• Withdrawal of reference extinguishes right to re-agitate issue, barring subsequent claims for relief under ID Act.
• Prolonged delays in industrial disputes warrant equitable compensation rather than regularization when workmen have reached superannuation or disengagement.
• Contractual employees are entitled to maternity leave under Maternity Benefit Act however, honorarium for such leave may be denied if prescribed by specific departmental policies.
• A writ petition would not lie when the appropriate Government refused to abolish engagement of contract labour with respect to a particular service.
• A forfeiture of gratuity is proper when an employee is terminated for causing embezzlement.
• Even if no inquiry has been held by an employer, the Tribunal has to give an opportunity to the employer and employee to adduce evidence before it.
• Gratuity cannot be forfeited when an employee has superannuated from service.
• The terms and conditions of offer of appointment and the remuneration received can be used to prove that the workman was working for 240 days.
• EPFO will have to move its claims for damages and interests before the liquidator in the case of a cooperative society in Himachal Pradesh.
• There was no adverse inference against the management for non-production of muster rolls when the workman admitted that he had never summoned the relevant muster roll himself.
• Factum of payment of wages as well as contribution towards 1948 Act and 1952 Scheme to be considered while establishing the employer-employee relationship.
• Documents relating to pending criminal cases between the management and employee will not be taken on record belatedly if they are not relevant to the industrial dispute.