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Orissa Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation V. Mesco Kalinga Steel Ltd. & Ors (Supreme Court) Lease of industrial land from government authority – Lessee neglected to execute lease deed for years – Lease cancelled and land resumed lessee obtaining order from High court for the allotment of land. The Apex Court held that the lessee has […]
Whether forfeiture of gratuity, under Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972, is automatic on dismissal from service, is issue for consideration in this case.
A plain reading of the definition of Section 2(22) of the ESI Act makes it amply clear that wages means all remuneration paid or payable in cash to an employee, if the terms of the contract of the employment, expressed or implied, were fulfilled and includes other additional remuneration, if any, paid at intervals not exceeding two months.
The Honble Supreme Court held that that strict rules of evidence as applicable in a criminal trial, are not applicable in motor accident compensation cases. In other words, the standard of proof to be borne in mind must be of preponderance of probability and not the strict standard of proof beyond all reasonable doubt which is followed in criminal cases.
Supreme Court in JCIT v. M/s. Chambal Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited held that the term tax under Section 40(a)(ii) of the Income Tax Act, 1961 should also include cess.
The Honble Supreme Court have considered disability as permanent and have enhanced compensation under Employees Compensation Act, 1923 as the disability report showed that there is Permanent Partial Disability of about 58% of the limb, which corresponds with 26% whole body. There is no dispute that the appellant suffered from disablement of permanent nature. The disablement has incapacitated the appellant from doing the work which she was capable of doing.
The Hon’ble Supreme Court enhanced compensation under Section 166 of the MV Act on basis of filial and parental consortium.
SC held that it was not permissible to initiate proceedings under Section 147/148 pending proceedings under Section 154
The Honble Supreme Court while enhancing the compensation in the case of permanent disability caused to accident, held that while awarding compensation in cases of permanent disability caused to claimants, the courts must look at the case in totality, and must consider the socio-economic background of the claimants.
The Honble Supreme Court while allowing appeal held that merely because the reinstatement order was under challenge and there was a stay of the order of reinstatement during the pendency of the proceedings before the High Court, it cannot be a ground to deny the wages to the employee when ultimately the order of reinstatement came to be confirmed and attained the finality.
