KARNATAKA HIGH COURT UPHOLDS INCREASE IN EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT AGE

Published On: 17/08/2022

Practice Area: Employment Law

Authors:

The Karnataka High Court recently dismissed an appeal challenging the validity of the Karnataka Government’s order for increasing the retirement age of workmen from 58 to 60 years. The High Court, while dismissing the appeal, has emphasized on India being a welfare state where labour disputes cannot be purely governed by a traditional bi-partite framework. Our Employment Law practice group colleagues Avik Biswas, Ivana Chatterjee and Vinduja Menon discuss the impact of this decision.