employee reinstatement Archives

“Employment – a means of livelihood and a tool of dignity”: Orissa High Court reinstates Sanskrit Lecturer ‘prevented’ from service without hearing 2 decades ago

“In these hard days of unemployment, more particularly for women, there has to be a strong case made out that the employee has abandoned the job.”

Case Briefs High Courts

Bombay High Court: Prolonged unauthorised absence from work constitutes voluntary abandonment of service and not termination

The employees ignored multiple communications from the petitioner-employer urging them to return to duty and moreover, there was no evidence that any of the employees made a genuine attempt to report back.