2026 LLR WEB 1335 - DELHI HIGH COURT Existence of employer-employee relationship is a threshold fact for an industrial dispute, and a finding on it is not disturbed in writ absent perversity. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES - Employer-employee relationship - Personal driver of managing director - Termination - Burden of proof - Identity card and gate pass - Scope of writ jurisdiction - Findings o...... read full judgement

2026 LLR WEB 1334 - DELHI HIGH COURT Proved misconduct involving misappropriation does not warrant reduction of punishment on sympathetic grounds under the statutory power to modify punishment. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES - DOMESTIC ENQUIRY - PROOF OF MISCONDUCT - NON-EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES - SOME EVIDENCE - PROPORTIONALITY OF PUNISHMENT - MODIFICATION OF PUNISHMENT - SYMPATHETIC CONSIDERATIO...... read full judgement

2026 LLR WEB 1333 - CALCUTTA HIGH COURT Closure of a business unit with no functional integrity to other units entitles a workman only to compensation under Section 25FFF and not to reinstatement or absorption elsewhere. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES - Retrenchment versus closure - Reinstatement - Scope of judicial review - Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, Sections 2(cc), 2(oo), 25F, 25FFF, 25G, 25H and 25T - Workmen employe...... read full judgement

2026 LLR WEB 1332 - CALCUTTA HIGH COURT Principal employer exclusively availing contract workmen's services is an employer liable under Section 9A for changes in their service conditions. CONTRACT LABOUR - Principal employer - Employer - Change in service conditions - Notice of change - Allowances - Liability of principal employer - Reference - Scope of relief - Delay - Continuing...... read full judgement