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		<title>Employer may be  redefined for sexual harassment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The committee on sexual harassment has  recommended change in the definition of  employer to make it  more broad-based  and to include  contractors, homeowners  and  landlords.  ‘Workplace’  can include vehicles provided by employers for  women to travel to and for the work. The panel  also suggested that the head of a private institution  including a company, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=labourlawreporter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25585882&amp;post=313&amp;subd=labourlawreporter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amendment of labour laws</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Latest on Labour Law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[1948]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1951 and the Workmen’s Compensation Act]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Payment of Bonus Act]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Review/amendment of labour laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Apprentices Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Employees’ State Insurance Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Industrial Disputes Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Payment of Gratuity Act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review/amendment of labour laws is a  continuous process and amendments are made  in labour laws from time to time keeping in view,  inter-alia, the problems of the labourers. Recent  amendments carried out include those under the  Payment of Wages Act, 1936, the Payment of  Bonus Act, 1965, the Apprentices Act, 1961, the  Payment of Gratuity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=labourlawreporter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25585882&amp;post=309&amp;subd=labourlawreporter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Government has no data  on migrant workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government has no data on the number  of migrant workers in the country and it doesn’t  know how many  people annually  move across states  in search of jobs or  for other reasons.  Government  records further  reveal a shocking  trend &#8211; there is nil  reporting of  registered migrant  workers, employers and contractors from major  migration [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=labourlawreporter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25585882&amp;post=307&amp;subd=labourlawreporter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Job market set to boom  in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[labour market]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In stark contrast to the fears of economic  slowdown hurting the country’s labour market,  two separate job market surveys  suggested an improving employment  scenario and predicted  robust hiring activities for  the new year which could  be the best in the world.  Painting an optimistic  picture, global HR firm Manpower said, in its  quarterly job market [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=labourlawreporter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25585882&amp;post=304&amp;subd=labourlawreporter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>. Maruti defends stand on good conduct bond</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL), on 1.12.2011, quashed allegations that demanding a good conduct bond from workers was an unfair labour practice even as it remained evasive on details of the severance packages doled out to the 30 workers who resigned from the company in November, 2011. The government had, on 29.11.2011, rapped Maruti for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=labourlawreporter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25585882&amp;post=302&amp;subd=labourlawreporter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IT employees constantly live in fear of blacklisting</title>
		<link>http://labourlawreporter.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/it-employees-constantly-live-in-fear-of-blacklisting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[CII Institute of Quality summit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Information communication and telecommunication (ICT) tools like Internet not only gives information but also it is considered a threat by the IT/ITeS employees. It is like ‘surgical knife which can also be used otherwise’, said Mr A.K. Padmanabhan, President, Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU). Speaking on the sidelines of CII Institute of Quality summit, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=labourlawreporter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25585882&amp;post=300&amp;subd=labourlawreporter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Basic principles for fixation of increments</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The scales of increments are fixed on the principles of financial capacity of the employer and the region-cum-industry basis. Once it is found that the employer has the financial capacity for sustaining the burden of increments, the award of annual increments is to be held to be a normal rule. The scales of increments fixed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=labourlawreporter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25585882&amp;post=297&amp;subd=labourlawreporter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PROVIDENT FUND UPDATE</title>
		<link>http://labourlawreporter.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/provident-fund-update-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[EPFO Nagpur Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation’s]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PF Defaults may now invite arrests &#8211; EPFO Nagpur Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation’s (EPFO) office in Nagpur has adopted a stricter stance against defaulting employers by resorting to the last option of issuing arrest warrants against many of them. Last month, the office issued as many as 12 warrants that enable the police to arrest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=labourlawreporter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25585882&amp;post=295&amp;subd=labourlawreporter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Labour ministry drafts national policy for domestic workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Employee’s Compensation Act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soon your domestic help will have the right to demand minimum wages, regulated working hours, paid leave and much more. All these provisions are included in the Ministry of Labour and Employment’s draft national policy for domestic workers. The draft policy, which has been developed under a task force set up by the ministry, has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=labourlawreporter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25585882&amp;post=290&amp;subd=labourlawreporter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unions to strike for better labour laws</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; For the first time in the history of the country’s trade union movement, all the Central Trade Unions (CTUs) are slated to hold a joint strike countrywide. The demands behind the proposed agitation, on February 28, are better labour laws and their more effective implementation. The decision comes on the heels of a united [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=labourlawreporter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25585882&amp;post=287&amp;subd=labourlawreporter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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