Employment Contracts - Enforcement Of Restrictive Covenants Under Various Jurisdictions
Suneeth Katarki, PARTNER and Mini Kapoor, ASSOCIATE INDUSLAW, PUBLISHED ON MONDAQ.COM, April, 2016

Companies and organizations include "restrictive covenants" in employment agreements, to protect their trade secrets, confidential information and human resources. The restrictive covenants essentially place restrictions and limitations on an employee to deal, solicit or engage with employees, customers, clients of their former organization as well as on the manner in which he/she is permitted to use the information they become privy to during the course of their employment.

 

Corporate India needs to up its compliance of prevention of the sexual harassment law in the workplace, both in letter and spirit, or face reputational and pecuniary damages
published in Business standard February 14, 2016

Another challenge facing corporate houses in such situations is the difficulty in collecting evidence while investigating allegations of sexual harassment. "In most cases, the evidence is circumstantial in nature. Generally, such harassments occur in isolated areas, or without witnesses"

 

Certain precautions regarding employee liabilities when businesses are purchased
Suneeth Katarki, Partner and Sherill Pal, Associate, IndusLaw, Published in PHD Chamber Bulletin, Volume No. XXXVI No. 8, August, 2014.

Business transfers in India may be accomplished by adopting the asset sale route, or by way of a merger, slump sale etc. The decision to adopt one method over the other is usually driven by factors such as tax implication, stamp duty payable, time-lines for completion etc. The transfer of a business as a going concern involves the transfer of substantially all the assets and liabilities in relation to that particular business.