2026 LLR WEB 714 - CALCUTTA HIGH COURT Trainees paid stipend without guarantee of employment are apprentices excluded from EPF coverage under Section 2(f). EMPLOYEES' PROVIDENT FUND - Section 7a - Section 7b - Definition of Employee - Trainees - Stipend - Section 2(F) - Apprentice - Standing Orders - Contractual Employees - Security And Fire Fig...... read full judgement

2026 LLR WEB 713 - BOMBAY HIGH COURT A finding of guilt in domestic enquiry based solely on circumstantial inference, without direct evidence of planning or participation, cannot sustain dismissal DOMESTIC ENQUIRY - Disciplinary proceedings - Dismissal - Circumstantial evidence - Inference of conspiracy - Clauses 24(k) and 24(l) of Model Standing Orders, Industrial Employment (Standing Ord...... read full judgement

2026 LLR WEB 712 - BOMBAY HIGH COURT Prolonged continuation on temporary status against admitted vacancies for perennial work constitutes unfair labour practice warranting regularisation. UNFAIR LABOUR PRACTICE - Temporary employees - Perennial work - Admitted vacancies - Regularisation - Items 5 and 6 Schedule IV - NABARD guidelines - Section 79A Maharashtra Co-operative Societie...... read full judgement

2026 LLR WEB 711 - BOMBAY HIGH COURT Hiring a driver for a short duration constitutes employer-employee relationship under the Employees'' Compensation Act, 1923. EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION - Employer-employee relationship - Short duration hiring - Driver - FIR as evidence - Written contract not necessary - Casual employment - Section 2(dd) and Section 2(...... read full judgement