2026 LLR WEB 1040 - PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT An unchallenged executive order rejecting a workman''s claim bars all subsequent proceedings and renders any writ petition non-maintainable. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES - Section 33C(2) - Maintainability - Work-charge employee - Regularisation - Promotion - Eligibility criteria - Availability of post - Unchallenged executive order - Section 3...... read full judgement

2026 LLR WEB 1039 - PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT An employer who deducts PF contributions but fails to deposit them is liable to pay statutory interest @ 12% under Section 7Q, not merely government notified rates. PROVIDENT FUND - Statutory interest - Section 7Q of the EPF & MP Act, 1952 - Discriminatory grant of interest - Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India - Petitioners, retired municipal em...... read full judgement

2026 LLR WEB 1038 - PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT An unchallenged regularisation order operates as a bar against claiming seniority from an earlier date in a civil suit filed beyond limitation. Labour & Industrial - Regularisation - Seniority - Limitation - Civil suit - A workman dismissed without show cause notice was reinstated pursuant to a compromise before the Labour Court; his ser...... read full judgement

2026 LLR WEB 1037 - PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT ESIC cannot be impleaded as necessary party in compensation proceedings where ESI coverage of deceased employee is uncertain. EMPLOYEES COMPENSATION - Employees' Compensation Act, 1923 - Impleadment - ESIC as necessary party - Dominus litis - ESI coverage - Sections 53 and 61 of Employees' State Insurance Act, 1...... read full judgement