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Adding one more kind of dispute to the list of non-arbitrable disputes, the Supreme Court of India has held that any dispute pertaining to affairs of a trust cannot be decided by an arbitrator under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996.

The Industrial Relations Code, 2020 ("Code") is the concluding code in our 4-part series on the new labour legislation.

Breaking the Silence: Acknowledging Menopause in India's Gender-Inclusive Workplace...

India's labour law framework has undergone a significant transformation with the consolidation of 29 central labour enactments into four labour codes.

The Hon’ble Supreme Court, in State of Uttar Pradesh v Jai Bir Singh, 2026 SCC OnLine SC 1684 brought to a close a nearly five decade-long interpretive controversy surrounding the definition of “industry” under Section 2(j) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.

Almost every employer in India has a template appointment letter with a confidentiality and non-compete clause tucked into it. Almost every employer also discovers, usually on the day a senior employee resigns and joins a competitor, that the clause does not do quite what the HR team believed it would. The question we are asked most often by clients is a simple one: “Can we stop him?” The honest answer is that it depends on what exactly we are trying to stop, and on how the obligation was documented.

The Tribunal awarded £20,735.91 (approximately INR 29 lakhs) in compensation to an Irish woman who suffered repeated racial harassment at the hands of her company’s director. The Tribunal found that the company’s director repeatedly targeted her Irish heritage through mocking slurs- including “potato”, “Paddy”, “stupid Paddy” and “pikey”.

Constructive exits are an increasingly significant concern in the Indian employment context. The judiciary has taken a stricter approach while deciding an issue pertaining to exit which is, in substance, dismissals dressed up as resignation.

The Indian labour law regime is currently undergoing its most significant structural transformation in over 70 years.

Vide a notification dated March 08, 2024, the government of Maharashtra has introduced the Maharashtra Labour Welfare

The UK Employment Rights Bill (Bill) is expected to mark a significant shift in the UK's flexible working framework once it becomes law. Currently, employers are only required to deal with flexible working requests...

In India, prior to 1997, no codified guidelines or definitions of the term 'sexual harassment' was available.

These objectives are sought to be achieved through enactment and implementation of various labour laws, which regulate the terms and conditions of service and employment of workers.

In The Management of Tata Engineering & Locomotive Company Ltd. (now Tata Motors Ltd.) v. Sumitra Devi & Ors., the Jharkhand High Court reaffirmed that Labour Courts possess...

The exclusion of daughters, in Hindu law, from participating within the coparcenary ownership not only contributed to her discrimination on the bottom of gender, but also led to oppression and negation of her fundamental right of equality guaranteed by Article 14 of the Constitution of India

The law relating to labour and employment in India is primarily known under the broad category of "Industrial Law".

Part A: Supreme court judgments

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