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CONTENTS OF MARCH 2011

. Current Labour Scenario

 
  • Placement rush begins early at top B-Schools
  • Healthy hiring trends
  • Govt. plans to bring 10 sectors sales persons under SPE Act
  • A finishing school for truck drivers
  • Google gets 75,000 job applications
  • Foundation stone laid for ESIC nursing college
  • Bank start increasing maternity benefits
  • Companies to divulge information on contract labour
  • Jobs in million the finance sector
  • Boom returns Airlines to hire 5,000 this year
  • Tech fuels job boom with 3 lakh hires
  • IBM to offer USD 1,000 stock bonus to staff to arrest attrition
  • Airlines salaries to shoot up by 30%
  • Rigid labour laws drags growth

  . Case Study

  . High Rising Salaries of CEOs

  . Labour Problems & Their Solutions

  • Resignation - meaning & legal implications of its acceptance
  • Suspension of an employee - only when it is necessary
  • Infancy period for bonus - Available to newly set up unit
  • Dismissal vis-à-vis removal
  • Qualifications - When irrelevant for fixation of wages
  • Annual increments - Obligation of an employer
  • Transfer as condition of service - precautions to drafting such clause in appointment letter

  . Factories Act Related Problems & Their Solutions

  . Employees' State Insurance related Problems & Their Solutions

  . Employees' Provident Fund/ Pension related Problems & Their Solutions

 
. Income-Tax Act related Problems & Their Solutions

 
. Model Forms & Precedents

 
  • Pro-forma suggested for appointment letter to a worker engaging him on piece rate basis for completion of coat, pant, shirt, shoes, under-wear, banian, tie etc.
  • Pro-forma suggested for acceptance of appointment by an employee
  • Pro-forma suggested for joining report by an employee
  • Pro-forma suggested for a notice to be displayed on the notice board of frame work of the complaint committee for sexual harassment at workplace i.e. ABC & Company
  • Pro-forma suggested for charge-sheet when the sanction of leave has been refused and also for unauthorized absence
  • Pro-forma suggested for an office order introducing payment of wages by cheque instead of cash
  • Pro-forma suggested for notice of change under section 9-A of the Industrial Disputes Act
  • Pro-forma suggested for engaging a substitute for an employee who is availing maternity leave
  • Pro-forma suggested for letter of warning to an employee who is found drunk while on duty

  . Latest Notifications, Amendments & Developments

  • Employees’ Provident Funds (Amendment) Scheme, 2011 (15.1.2011)
  • Employees’ State Insurance Act - Department of Health and Family Welfare, Punjab (10.1.2011)
  • Minimum Rates of Wages in Maharashtra (1.1.2011 to 30.6.2011)
  • Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (8.1.2011)
  • Employees’ Deposit Linked Insurance (Amendment) Scheme, 2011 (8.1.2011)
  • Move to amend Factories Act

  . HR Around the World

  . HR Scenario

  • Ramadorai appointed PM’s advisor on skill development
  • Human resource crunch public banks, PSUs, research and educational institutes
  • HR conference for banking organized
  • Aegis to hire 11,000 people next fiscal

  . An HR Manager Can Even Become a CEO

  . 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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