The Firm has recently rendered advise to Grohe on an Employment Law issue. Unless an employee is being terminated for misconduct, any Employer is within their rights to terminate an employment agreement for cause. The cause though has to be provided in the termination letter. An experience letter should be provided and the gratuity should
Since Save the Children US was found to have a role in the operation to capture Osama Bin Laden, authorities in Pakistan have viewed the activities of foreign INGOs with much increased suspicion. The general perception amongst the Government circles is that all INGOs are working somehow against the interests of Pakistan. In order to
The Firm recently advised Herbert Smith Freehills LLP for Bloomberg LP. The advise related to the Sind Disability Law and the powers of the provincial government in collecting information regarding employees with disability and the law regarding compliance on data for the same. Pakistan does not have a separate data protection law however identity data
In a major win for us today, we received a verdict in favor of employees of a large international hotel chain we were representing in a criminal complaint. The mater stemmed from a harassment case in which we had already successfully represented the clients before a tribunal for the same. A fresh criminal compliant had
The Firm for the past year has been representing an International hotel chain in a variety of criminal charges regarding their employees. The actions range from allegations of sexual harassment, filing for bail in a criminal matter, application against termination of employment during the lock down for Covid-19 to a fresh action of filing criminal
The Frim has been retained by GIZ one of the foremost social sector organizations. The Framework Agreement was signed yesterday at the offices of GIZ. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, often shortened to simply GIZ, is a premier German development agency headquartered in Bonn and Eschborn that provides services in the field of
The Firm recently provided advise to SABIC Chemicals on regulatory and employment issue. The Memorandum of a company defines the work that the company can carry out. The primary line of business is also a term which is defined within the Companies Act of Pakistan. Any doubt on what work a company can and cannot
The Supreme Court has ruled that when judges commit “judicial overreach” they violate their oath, in a judgment that adjudicated on the distinction between judicial review, judicial activism and judicial overreach. A three-judge bench, led by Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik and comprising Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Aminuddin Khan, described the judicial overreach as the
The Firm has joined hands with A.F Ferguson in advising and reviewing HR policies of a public sector organization. The project entails legal review, review of organizational structure, pay structure, data protection procedure, internal controls, updation of HR policy and manual. A. F Ferguson is a PWC network Firm.
In a major development, Pakistan has formally joined the Madrid System to protect Pakistani trademarks in 124 member countries making it easier and effective for brand owners to get protection in export markets. With the accession to the Madrid Protocol, the trademark holders of Pakistan will be able to protect their trademarks in the member