Employee State Insurance — Key Judgments

Key Judgments

Royal Talkies, Hyderabad v. ESI Corporation

1978

This landmark Supreme Court judgment significantly broadened the interpretation of 'employee' and 'establishment' under the ESI Act. It held that even if certain services like a…

B.M. Lakshmana Murthy v. ESI Corporation

1974

The Supreme Court in this case reiterated the fundamental principle that the ESI Act is a piece of beneficial social welfare legislation. It emphasized that such laws should be…