Practice area

Labour & Industrial Law

Industrial disputes, retrenchment, wages, gratuity and contract labour before the labour courts and industrial tribunals.

What we do

Typical matters

  • References and awards under the Industrial Disputes Act
  • Retrenchment, lay-off and closure
  • Reinstatement and back wages
  • Gratuity, bonus and wage claims
  • Contract labour: engagement, abolition and absorption
  • Trade union and standing orders disputes

Labour and industrial law turns on statute and on the record made before the conciliation officer and the tribunal. The firm acts in references under the Industrial Disputes Act, in claims for gratuity and wages, and in disputes over the engagement and abolition of contract labour.

These matters are decided on evidence. We conduct them with that in view from the first notice: what is pleaded, what is proved through witnesses, and what survives cross-examination determines what an award can be founded on.

Principal statutes

  • Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
  • Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972
  • Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970
  • Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946
  • Payment of Wages Act, 1936

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A first conference establishes what the dispute is, what the record shows and what remedy is open. Nothing on this page is legal advice.

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