SERVICE & EMPLOYMENT MATTERS

Service or Employment Laws deal with the employee-employer relationship. It encompasses matters like employment contracts, labour, industrial disputes, Trade unions, statutory regulations, collective bargaining agreements, employees’ employers’ duties, and liabilities. Furthermore, these laws protect employees from workplace discrimination and deal with employee working hours, wages, salary, gratuity, safety, and health issues. In other words, the objective is to respect human labour dignity, safeguarding and protecting the interests and fundamental rights of the workers and employees.

We keep clients at the forefront of development in employment laws, new legislation, and training. In addition, we offer expert advice and service that range from the following:

1. Advice and assistance in the recovery of salary dues, settlement terms with employees, delayed or denied promotions arbitrarily, illegal termination or dismissal or removal, increment, disciplinary action, sexual harassment at the workplace, and any other allied issues in public and private sectors.
2. Advice and draft employment contracts, restraints of trade, or confidentiality agreements.
3. Advice about all aspects of health, safety requirements, and environmental law.
4. Prosecute or represent on behalf of the employers in courts, tribunals, and in any other forums and internal disciplinary/ grievance cell.
5. Represent employees in courts, tribunals, forums, and wherever permitted in disciplinary inquiries or internal grievances.
6. Consulting services on all aspects of human resource laws (HR).
7. Drafting and vetting of codes, policies, and procedures manuals for employees.
8. Legal advice on all areas of labour, industrial, and employment law.
9. Legal representation at Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), labour courts and tribunals, appellate court, High Courts, and Supreme Court.
10. Legal issues related to probationary employee disputes, strikes, lay-off and retrenchments disputes, unfair dismissal disputes, and unfair labour practice disputes.
11. Drafting and vetting of settlements related to service and labour disputes
12. Drafting and vetting of replies to charge sheets, memos, and warning letters.
13. Issues related to statutory compliance by the employers like EPF, PF, insurance and social security, shop establishment, and so on.
14. Handle issues related to workers’ compensation, wrongful termination, and professional liabilities.