Employment Laws

On November 21, 2025, the Ministry of Labour and Employment issued notifications operationalizing substantial portions of India's four labour codes......

Section 2 (s) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 ("ID Act") defines workman as any person employed in an industry for manual, skilled, technical, clerical, or supervisory work, including those dismissed, discharged, or retrenched related to industrial disputes ("Workman"). The definition excludes individuals performing managerial or administrative roles in the industry. ......

On June 29, 2024, the Karnataka Government's Labour Department published the draft Karnataka Platform based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Bill, 2024 (the "Bill") for public comments. In essence, the Bill is aimed at safeguarding the rights of platform based gig workers and mandates aggregators to comply with certain obligations to ensure social security of its gig workers. ... ...

The Government of India is empowered by Section 6A of the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 ("Act"), to frame a scheme called the Employees' Pension Scheme for the purpose of providing. ......

In the year 2020, work from home gained popularity and various sectors in the country were able to shift gears and adopt a total work from home or a hybrid work model. However, companies in Special Economic Zones faced challenges with enabling a work from home structure for their employees due to a lack of uniform guidelines/directions for the same. ......

The Securities and Exchange Board of India ("SEBI"), vide its notification dated August 13, 2021, introduced the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Share Based Employee Benefits and Sweat Equity) Regulations, 2021 ("2021 Regulations") . This was after an expert group, constituted to merge the SEBI (Share Based Employee Benefits) Regulations, 2014 and the SEBI (Issue of Sweat Equity) Regulations, 2002 into the 2021 Regulations recommended various changes to the earlier regulations. ... ...

Gift vouchers for salons and discounts for spa visits – these are the kinds of sops routinely offered to women come March 8. But is this really what women want? One day of the year dedicated to nominally “celebrating” the achievements of a gender that makes up half the population, wrapped in pinks and frills, is nothing short of being disrespectful of the achievements and the achievers themselves. ......

Employment Laws in India have traditionally been governed by contract as well as multifarious and fragmented legislations, both at the central and state level. With a view to harmonising and consolidating the various legislations pertaining to employment, social security, wages, industrial disputes and other relevant labour/employment related matters, the Ministry of Labour and Employment ("Ministry") introduced four bills in 2019 to amalgamate 29 central laws related to labour laws. These bills have been codified and enacted. ......

In the recent case of Sanjeev Mishra vs. Bank of Baroda , the Rajasthan High Court ("Court") has widened the scope of the term ‘workplace harassment’ to include online harassment. In this case, a complaint of sexual harassment was lodged against another employee working in a different State of the same bank. ......