Month: September 2021
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PREMISE The Government of India adopted the new Industrial Relations Code, 2020 (hereinafter in short as “IRC”) on September 28th, 2020, in order to modernise the country’s existing labour and employment legislation. The IRC annuls three key labour acts namely: the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (hereinafter in short as “ID Act”), Trade Unions Act, 1926,…
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Nikhil Thomas and Ronak Lodha The Supreme Court two-judge bench headed by Justice U.U. Lalit, by an order dated 24 August, 2021, referred the petitions challenging the Kerala High Court’s 2018 decision to set aside the Employees’ Pension (Amendment) Scheme 2014 to a larger three-judge bench for adjudication. WHAT NEEDS TO BE DECIDED BY THE…
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INTRODUCTION The world community is responsible for the long overdue in how we view transgender persons. Gender, for the longest time, has been an austerely binary concept, but we are slowly transitioning and accepting gender identities the way they are and the people for who they are. The case of Navtej Singh Johar v. Union…