The Ministry of Commerce and Industry, on December 08, 2022, provided certain significant relaxations to ensure that units in Special Economic Zones (SEZ) can allow their employees to work from home t...
Published On: 16/03/2020
Practice Area: Government & Regulatory, Employment Law
Authors:
Avik Biswas
The delivery and administration of health care largely rests with individual states in India as health care is a state subject. In view of the fact that World Health Organization on March 11, 2020, declared the coronavirus ('COVID-19') outbreak to be a pandemic, the Government of India, on March 11, 2020, decided that all States/UTs should be advised by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare ('MoHFW') to invoke provisions of Section 2 of Epidemic Disease Act, 1897 ('ED Act') so that all advisories being issued from time to time by the MoHFW are enforceable. In light of the same, INDUSLAW's Manishi Pathak, Avik Biswas, Poonam Das, Ankit Duttaand, Natasha Sahni discuss.
