The Changing Indian Labour Law Regime & its Impact

Ms. Pooja Ramchandani is a Partner at the Firm and heads the Labour and Employment law practice. Her area of expertise encompasses a range of matters in the field of employment and labour laws. She has advised on structuring of workforce, social security, pensions, benefits and compensation, transition of employees and implications in a corporate restructuring, integration of benefits and compensation, employee welfare benefits, employee stock options and other performance incentive schemes, contract labour analysis, closure of factories and establishments, breach of secrecy, non-compete and non-solicitation obligations, HR policies, key and non-key employment contracts, confidentiality agreements, secondment agreements, consultancy agreements, downsizing of workforce, disciplinary proceedings, data retention, background checks, hiring, transfer and termination of employees, general compliances under employment and labour law amongst others.

Mr. Vaibhav Bhardwaj is a Principle Associate at the Firm and advises client on Employment and Labour Laws. He has worked with numerous domestic and multinational clients on a wide range of matters. He has advised clients on structuring of workforce, social security, pension, benefits and compensation, individual and large scale employee exits, closure, transition of employees in mergers and acquisitions and outsourcing, internal disciplinary investigations and inquiries associated with employee misconduct, ethics violation and sexual harassment claims and various other legal aspects of hiring, retaining and separation. 

Kriti Kaushik is a Principal Associate at the Firm and advices multinationals on employment law related issues across sectors. She extensively advices clients on employee movements on account of corporate restructurings, workforce restructurings, managing industrial relations, employee policies, engagement of C-suite employees, exit strategies involving business run-offs and closure of manufacturing/commercial units and business run-offs, etc., outsourcing and contract labour arrangements, industrial disputes, trade union settlements, remuneration and severance of higher management, ESOPs, transactional advisory on employee integration and harmonization, social security benefits, POSH, disciplinary issues and employee-related investigations, amongst others.