Whether you are a foreign company opening your first office in India, hiring your first Indian employee remotely, or an established company in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Gurugram, or Mumbai reviewing your existing contracts, the same question comes up: how should compensation actually be structured to be compliant right now, not under the rules that applied a […]
Category Archives: Employment & HR
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Oct
Oct
India does not have a single, unified employment law, but the landscape looks very different today than it did even a year ago. For decades, a patchwork of central and state legislation, the Industrial Disputes Act, the Payment of Wages Act, the Minimum Wages Act, the Payment of Gratuity Act, and dozens of others, governed […]
29
Jun
Jun
TL;DR: Paying for creative work does not automatically make you the owner of it. In the US, “work for hire” only applies to employees acting within their job, or to independent contractors whose work falls into one of nine narrow statutory categories, with a signed written agreement. Outside those categories, an independent contractor keeps copyright […]
22
Mar
Mar
TL;DR: The old two-way split between “employee” and “independent contractor” stopped being the full picture on 21 November 2025, when the Government of India brought all four Labour Codes into force and repealed the twenty-nine central labour statutes they replace, including the EPF Act, the ESI Act, and the Payment of Gratuity Act as standalone […]