Indian Nationales abroad: Understanding the differences between NRIs, OCIs and PIOs
To bring the “Indians” abroad closer to home, the Government of India offers different kinds of statuses, which are known as NRIs, OCIs and PIOs.
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Employees have legitimate expectation to receive same benefits as offered to similarly situated employees: Rajasthan High Court
Rajasthan High Court held that the respondent has no authority to make a discrimination among the similarly situated employees for no good reason.
Whether Government employee entitled to annual increment, earned one day prior to retirement?; Supreme Court answers
Supreme Court held that, “the entitlement to receive increment therefore crystallises when the government servant completes requisite length of service with good conduct and becomes payable on the succeeding day.”
“An Award of the Labour Court without any fundamental flaws, does not invite a High Court’s interference”; Gujarat HC dismisses petitions by employees of Indian Petrochemicals Corporation regarding the company’s Voluntary Retirement Schemes
Gujarat High Court: The instant petitions came up before the Court challenging the Award of the Labour Court, Vadodara, whereby which it
Can State deny benefits of New Pension Scheme citing delayed appointments when the delay was not attributable to employees? Supreme Court answers
Supreme Court: The Division Bench comprising Ajay Rastogi and Bela M. Trivedi, JJ., reversed the impugned judgment of the Madras High Court and held that
Merely because the same caste is recognized as Scheduled Caste in the migrant State, a migrant cannot be recognized as Scheduled Caste of that State: SC
Supreme Court: The Division Bench comprising of M. R. Shah* and A.S. Bopanna, JJ., held that a person belonging to Scheduled Caste
Withdrawal of India’s Generalized System of Preference (GSP) benefits by USA
The United States of America (USA) has w.e.f. 5 June 2019 withdrawn India’s GSP benefits. These are unilateral, non-reciprocal and non-discriminatory benefits
A party cannot be allowed to derive benefits of an insurance policy obtained by concealing vital facts about the insured property
National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC): A Division Member Bench of Anup K Thakur, C. Viswanath, Members, dismissed a complaint filed against
Conditions incorporated under Ex Gratia Scheme, precluding an employee from pursuing litigation against employer are enforceable
Kerala High Court: A Bench comprising of P.R. Ramachandra Menon and Dama Seshadri Naidu, JJ. disposed of an appeal filed by an