Diversity is defined as being composed of different elements or the wide variety of something. In a workplace, this means that the workforce is composed of employees from different races, genders, sexual orientation, career backgrounds and skills.
Section 46 of the Factories Act, 1948 provides that the State Government may make rules requiring that in any specified factory wherein more than 250 workers are ordinarily employed, a canteen or canteens shall be provided and maintained by the Occupier for the use of the workers.
To determine if an employee is a workman or not under the Act is a subject of intractable controversy. When an employee is involved in a dispute with the employer or in a situation where his employment is terminated and such individual wants to avail the protective umbrella of the Act, the employer contests by raising an objection that the employee is not a workman within the definition of the Act. This article discusses various factors which determine the circumstances when an employee will be considered a workman.
The corona virus is invisible, but its effects are visible everywhere. This virus is changing our lives radically without ever revealing itself directly. All of this is because an invisible virus jumped from a bat to a pangolin to a human and then on to millions more people. We do not know who we need to avoid and who we do not need to avoid, leading to physical distancing from everyone who is not in our household.
Handbook of Sustainable Development
I remember the days when I joined my employer more than 20 years back and was posted to a very remote location in Rajasthan on my first posting. A few years later, when I became an integral part of the HR Department, my manager happened to remark that South Indians, especially Keralites, are very adjusting in nature and will not mind a posting anywhere. I couldn’t help but consider myself as a prime example of this phenomenon.