Description :

This Digest was first published in 2000 and, thereafter, it was updated and published on four occasions previously. The current revised publication contains a total number of 1500 cases related to labour law.

Content :

1. Absenteeism
2. Affidavits
3. Appeals
4. Deposit of Security
5. Revisionary Power

• Supreme Court Rules

4. Arbitration
5. Arbitrator’s Award – to quash a part of the award
6. Jurisdiction of Arbitrators

• Reference to Arbitration

5. Assault
6. Burden of Proof & Quantum of Proof
7. Casual Employment
8. Closure of Business
9. Collective Agreements
10. Commissioner of Labour (Duties & Powers)
11. Compensation
12. Constructive Termination
13. Contracts of Employment
14. Disciplinary Proceedings
15. Employees’ Provident Fund Act
16. Employees’ Trust Fund Act
17. Employer, Employee & Independent Contractor
18. Ex-parte Inquiry
19. Extension of Services
20. Evidence
21. Fixed Term Contracts
22. Frustration of Contract and Impossibility of Performance
23. Fundamental Rights
24. Gratuity
25. Holidays Act
26. Industrial Disputes
27. Jurisdiction of High Court
28. Just & Equitable
29. Labour Tribunals
30. Appointment of Labour Tribunal Presidents – Are they Judicial Officers?
31. Duty of the Labour Tribunal

• Jurisdiction of Labour Tribunals

1. Non-compliance with an Order of the Labour Tribunal
2. Liquidation
3. Loss of Confidence
4. Mala Fide
5. Minister of Labour – Powers – in regard to Industrial Disputes
6. Misconduct
7. Natural Justice
8. Negligence
9. Offences
10. Pension
11. Previous Conduct of the Workman
12. Probation
13. Preliminary Objections
14. Promotions
15. Punishments
16. Questions of Law
17. Reasonable Expectation of Future Employment
18. Reasons for Orders
19. Recruitment
20. Relief and Redress
21. Retirement
22. Pensions on Retirement
23. Right to resign from Employment whilst Disciplinary Inquiry Pending
24. Shop & Office Employees’ Act
25. Strikes
26. Suspension
27. Termination of Services
28. Termination of Employment of Workmen (Special Provisions) Act
29. Transfer
30. The Doctrine of Uberrimae Fides
31. Unilateral Variation of Contract
32. Unsatisfactory work
33. Vacation of Post
34. Violence and Equity in Employment
35. Writs