LEGAL DIARY

Arbitrariness in Termination


Rajasi Clerk

In order to establish absolute authority in employment relations, many employers frequently resort to arbitrariness in their dealings with employees, particularly in ‘hire and fire’ policies and disciplinary actions.

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Settlements Violative of Public Policy


Rajasi Clerk

The law governing employment contract in India has always encouraged mutually negotiated bipartite settlements between the employer and the employees reached through a collective bargaining process.

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Labour Misconduct and Limits of Judicial Discretion


Rajasi Clerk

In the ongoing power conflict between capital and labour, a major controversy surrounds the limits of capital’s discretionary power to terminate the services of labour. One of the important grounds for termination has been improper work place behaviour by the labour, known as ‘misconduct’.

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The State as Litigant - Mighty Warrior or Callous Prosecutor?


Rajasi Clerk

Two workers were appointed as class IV employees on 6 June 1997 by a departmental selection committee in the Department of Animal Husbandry and were placed on probation for two years.

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