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‘Same employer, perennial job’: After 40 years on contract, Calcutta High Court orders coal firm to regularise 16 workers
February 20, 2026 5:59 pm
The Calcutta High Court upheld an industrial tribunal’s finding that the management of Bhojudih Coal Washery was unjustified in failing to departmentalise the workers.
Can a son be his father’s employee?: Punjab widow’s 28-year legal battle for compensation ends with HC ruling
January 16, 2026 12:41 pm
Following tractor driver Jasbir Singh’s death in an accident, Oriental Insurance Company opposed his family’s compensation claim, arguing that no genuine employer-employee relationship could exist between a father and son.
Labourers' hands chopped: SC notice to chief secretaries of Odisha, Andhra
January 27, 2014 1:16 pm
Right palms of two migrant labourers from Odisha were chopped off by a contractor.
Beaten by Karnataka employer, 10-year-old may lose hand
January 18, 2014 4:42 am
The doctors said the delay in treatment has damaged the boy’s left hand.
Odisha's vicious migration cycle: 'Do you want to part with your leg or hand?'
December 22, 2013 2:51 am
Labour contractor cut captive labours' limbs as they failed to pay him Rs 2 lakhs.
9 minors from Orissa held for murder released,head home
September 09, 2011 2:46 am
Nine minors from the tribal belt of Orissa,held for murdering a labour contractor for subjecting them to cruelty,were on Wednesday released from an observation home here on probation after they pleaded guilty.
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