• A non-banking financial company engaged in hire-purchase and financing activities is a "shop".
  • Pending and future industrial disputes cannot be proceeded with or initiated in the absence of the industrial tribunals under the Industrial Relations Code, 2020.
  • Evidence of genuine managerial powers such as the ability to sanction leave or impose discipline to prove that an employee is not "workman".
  • No protection against illegal termination unless employer-employee relationship is established.
  • Factory workers are excluded from the ambit of labour cess.
  • There is no illegality in making student representatives a part of the IC when the sexual harassment complaint was made by a student.
  • Even retired and retrenched employees can be office bearers of trade unions.
  • Bonus payable to the employees is a statutory mandate irrespective of any specific demand made on the side of the employees.
  • Provisions under the EPF Scheme pertaining to international workers are constitutional.
  • A dispute of whether a person should or should not be admitted as a member of a trade union can be dealt with by the Civil Court.
  • No belated application for claim of unpaid wages without giving reasons for delay.
  • Medical Representatives, not being workmen, cannot raise industrial disputes.
  • Workman can claim reinstatement only after producing details with respect to the employer-employee relationship and payment of wages.