India: Employment Litigation/ Tribunals

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Abandonment Of Service: The Evidentiary Line That Separates Absconding From Disguised Dismissal
An employee stops coming to work, without notice and without explanation, and days turn into weeks. The employer treats the relationship as over. The employee, when he resurfaces, says he was dismissed unfairly. The question before Courts in that moment is stark: did the employee walk away, or was this a dismissal in disguise? This is one of the most heavily litigated issues in Indian employment law, because the answer decides whether the employer must comply with retrenchment safeguards or whether the separation falls outside the statutory framework altogether.
India Employment
LegaLogic
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The Contractual Trap; How The Supreme Court Is Dismantling Decades Of Exploitative Public Employment
There is a practice so entrenched in Indian public administration that it has become almost invisible. A government body needs workers. Instead of following the constitutionally mandated process of open recruitment, it hires on contract, daily wages, or ad hoc terms. Years pass. Sometimes decades. The worker performs the same duties as a regular employee, sits at the same desk, reports to the same officer, and keeps the institution running. On paper, however, they remain ‘contractual’. No pension. No provident fund. No job security. No career progression.
India Employment
Foresight Law Offices
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High Court Of Delhi Held That An Employer Cannot Continue To Pay Stagnant Wages Under Section 17-B Of The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 Despite Periodic Revision Of Minimum Wages By The Government
The High Court of Delhi, through its Judgment dated 18.05.2026 in the matter of Moolchand Khairati Ram Hospital v. Vijender Singh & Ors., inter alia, held that the obligation under Section 17-B of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (“ID Act”) is a continuing statutory obligation and takes into account the minimum wages revised from time to time by the Appropriate Government.
India Employment
Sagus Legal
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