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The pressure placed on students to achieve academically can be suffocating, leaving little time for personal development and other important activities, such as work or personal life. Moreover, many students don’t have the required skills just yet to produce great-quality academic writing. Recognizing these issues, Essay Now, a “write my essay for me” service, offers…
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The insecurities that come along with the sharing economy is feared to “jeopardize welfare” in countries like Canada and The United States, where social security systems and worker protection measures like health coverage and “insurance against injuries” are limited to “stable employment contracts”. The gig economy has monumentally grown as a flexible employment alternative, especially…
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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…
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Maternity Benefits refer to the distinct protection granted to women during the time of their pregnancy and maternity. Such protection ensures that women are not deprived of their jobs, rather, they are entitled to certain monetary and non-monetary benefits. The rationale behind providing these benefits is that women are particularly vulnerable (physically as well as…
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Aabir Bhattacharya and Shriyadita Srivastava The Supreme Court in Re: Problems and Miseries of Migrant Labourers had directed the Central Government to develop the portal for registration under the National Database for Unorganised Workers (NDUW). In furtherance of the directions, the portal has been developed by the National Informatics Centre and is aimed at registering…
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Introduction The concept of precedents has its origin in the English Common Law. Salmond defines it as the part of a judicial decision having a legal authority, also called as ratio decidendi. The significance of law of precedent is to establish uniformity and consistency in decision-making and ensure equality in treatment. Recently, the Industrial Relations…
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Article 41 of the Indian Constitution and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disability (UNCRPD), to which India is a signatory, secures the right to work of the visually disabled, along with the larger disabled community. However, these laws are fleeting for visually disabled people who continue to be discriminated against…
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On 1 June 2021, the Delhi High Court (“Delhi HC”), in the case of Arjun Ahluwalia vs Air India Limited held that government-owned enterprises cannot afford to terminate employees using the defence of financial distress and also dealt with issues relating to the withdrawal of tendered resignations, relying upon a catena of judgments. Background The…