2025 LLR WEB 466 - GUJARAT HIGH COURT No claim can be made against the principal employer when the employees admitted that they were employed with the contractor. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES ACT, 1947 - Employer-employee relationship - Reinstatement and back wages - Adverse inference - Burden of proof - Contractual employment - Sham contract allegation - Estoppel...... read full judgement

2025 LLR WEB 465 - GUJARAT HIGH COURT Raising of dispute after 9 years of termination is not wrong when repeated promises of reinstatement were made. INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES ACT, 1947 - Workman filed Reference after nine-year delay challenging termination from watchman post claiming violation of Section 25F - Held, High Court partly allowed the...... read full judgement

2025 LLR WEB 464 - SIKKIM HIGH COURT The liability to pay cess falls not only on the owner of the building or establishment, but the contractor as well. BUILDING AND OTHER CONSTRUCTION WORKERS' WELFARE CESS ACT, 1996 - Employer challenged arbitral award directing it to bear cess liability instead of contractors engaged for construction works...... read full judgement

2025 LLR WEB 463 - MADRAS HIGH COURT Gas Cylinder delivery personnel, when are indispensable to the establishment's functioning, would be 'employees'. TAMIL NADU INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS (CONFERMENT OF PERMANENT STATUS TO WORKMEN) ACT, 1981 - Writ Petition filed by co-operative society challenging order of Labour Authority granting permanent...... read full judgement