Ludhiana-based association of hand tools manufacturers, comprising 41 MSMEs, has moved the Supreme Court seeking quashing the government’s March 29 order asking private establishments to pay full wages to their workers during the Covid-19 lockdown. Stating that the Ministry of Home Affairs passed orders without due care and deliberation on the financial implications for employers, […]
New Delhi: Labour Secretary Heeralal Samariya on Wednesday ruled out appropriating funds of the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) for payment of wages to workers or to employers to meet their salary bill during the coronavirus lockdown. There has been lobbying for sometime for using funds of the retirement fund body EPFO as well as
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A Mumbai-based textile exporter has moved the Supreme Court seeking quashing of the government orders that mandated employers to pay full salary to their employees, workers, contract workers and casual workers without any deduction, during the lock down. Nagreeka Exports has challenged the constitutional validity of the orders issued by the ministry of home affairs and
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Some of ideas & interpretation: QUERY 1: Establishment’ to which the MHA Order (defined hereinafter) applies? Response: The MHA Order issued under the powers granted to it by the Disaster Management Act, 2005, among other things, clearly spells out the responsibility of the employer towards its workers during the lockdown caused by COVID-19 crisis and is produced
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Hundreds of thousands of cash-starved Indian small businesses have either deferred or cut their workers’ wages this month, say industrialists and union leaders, amid a 21-day nationwide lockdown to stem the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. All India Manufacturers Organisation (AIMO)- an industry body representing some 100,000 small manufacturers – said more than two-thirds of
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Ten central trade unions have jointly written to labour minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar seeking his intervention at the ground level to stop retrenchment of workers and rampant salary cuts. “Advisory by the government, both the labour ministry and home ministry, is not at all working at ground level to prevent loss of employment and earnings and also eviction from local residence in
MUMBAI: As corporates frantically dial banks seeking help to tide over the Covid-19 crisis, public sector banks have stepped up with emergency funds to aid companies, both small and large, to continue operations, especially pay salaries, said two people aware of the development. At least two state-owned banks, State Bank of India (SBI) and Union
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NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide emergency wages as part of a special welfare plan to unorganised sector workers, especially migrant and construction workers, in the wake of loss of work forced by the Covid-19 outbreak. In a letter sent to the PM on Tuesday, Gandhi suggested that the large unspent part of the ₹49,688
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