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CONTENTS OF AUG 2011

. Current Labour Scenario

 
  • Govt. plans monetary aid for child workers
  • ESIC starts old cheque payment for its portal
  • Unemployment rate falls to 2% in 2009-10
  • Labour unrest in Haryana car industry
  • Shortage of workers hits textile units: Assocham
  • Agricultural wages up by nearly 43 %
  • Health cover for domestic helps
  • Auto companies call for labour law reforms
  • Only 20% graduates are employable
  • Flexible labour laws likely in new policy
  • National employment policy on the anvil
  • Labour shortage, not job loss slows employment rate
  • Pick-up in hiring activity in June, says naukri.com
  • Action plan against child labour
  • 48,000 youths given jobs in HP
  • Salary of sick PSU heads likely to go up
  • India loses the charm of cheap labour
  • Jobs for workers of closed industries on the cards
  • Garment unit owner let off after labour dept fails to prove charges
  • Helpline for labourers
  • Delhi has highest minimum wages in India
  • Kotak gives biggest raise
  • Survey says firms to pay more in 2011
  • Auto firms in no-poaching pact

 

  . Case Study

  . Workman under Industrial Disputes Act?


  . Labour Problems & Their Solutions

  • Striking workers cannot prevent willing workers
  • Obligation to provide employment to apprentices
  • Contract labour system can’t be prohibited by High Court
  • Repeated breaks – not desirable
  • A settlement made will bind the freshers
  • Security guards Also workers under Factories Act
  • Workman – relevance of designation of an employee
  • Probationer – confirmation of
  • Sleeping during duty hours – a grave misconduct
  • Hoisting of union flag at premises – not permissible


   . Model Forms & Precedents

  • Pro-forma suggested for letter of appointment to an employee on probation
  • Pro-forma suggested for a letter of appointment to be issued to an employee who has been retired after attaining the age of superannuation but applied for ad-hoc employment and the management has also decided to employ him for a specific period
  • Pro-forma suggested for notice to a sales representative to send the daily reports
  • Pro-forma suggested for order of transfer from one department to another

  . HR Scenario

  • Wipro links attrition to pay package
  • Toyota, Honda, Nissan back in hiring mode
  • Firms hire temp for skilled jobs
  • Companies care employees from price pinch
  • Infosys ups lateral hiring
  • Executives to get pay linked with performance : Mercer
  • Indian companies plan to hire aggressively in 2011-12
  • TCS to bring down attrition level
  • TISS to recruit faculty on contractual basis
  • Priorities for job seekers
  • Sibal to B-schools : look beyond jobs, pay packets
  • Retention bonuses by TCS

  . HR Around the World

  . HR Workplace Solutions

 

 

 

  

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  • An employee cannot be retired in the absence of specific clause in the appointment letter.
  • If the terms and conditions are not specified in the appointment letter, an employee will note be bound to abide by subsequent conditions.
  • Before availing leave, an employee has to apply and get it sanctioned.
  • When an employee is appointed for a fixed period, no notice or compensation will be payable on his termination.
  • An employee cannot be transferred only when there is a specific clause in the appointment letter.
  • Once a benefit is extended to an employee, it cannot be withdrawn by the employer.
  • House Rent Allowance and overtime payment does not attract provident funds contributions.
  • Absence/late coming, when habitual will justify dismissal from service.
  
         
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