Sandeep Puri

Advocate Sundeep Puri is the Managing Partner of M/s. S. D. Puri group of companies, (viz S.D. Puri & Company, S.D. Puri Associates & Advocates, Sundeep Puri Associates & Advocates), one of the leading retainer firms in India dealing in specialist consultancy on Practico-Legal basis in employment and labour law for corporates PAN India, having its presence in the country for more than 5 decades. He is an Advocate, practising in employment and Labour Law, representing numerous corporates & multinational companies before Labour & Industrial Courts, Mumbai, since more than 40 years. He has extensive experience in advising and counsellingm Indian MNC and Foreign MNC Clients having multi locational factories and/or offices on a wide range of “Employment and Labour” issues, keeping in view the
cultural diversity of the workforce such as Acquisitions, Mergers, Consolidations, Reductions in force, Maintaining union free operations and also preserving operational flexibility in unionised settings, providing tailor made models for providing conflict free, productivity conducive Industrial Environment, early retirement programs, employment contracts, vetting of employee manuals/ Policies, wage hours
compliance, workers compensation as well as general employee relation matters, including advice on collective bargaining negotiations and also with respect to applicability of the various labour laws.

He has also extensively handled the “New-Generation Business” such as Banks, Mutual Fund Houses, Hospitals, BPO’s, It & IT enabled Companies, etc., which face peculiar issues such as knowing Applicability of various labour laws to its Head Office as well as Branches, Legal & Proper Drafting of Appointment Letters containing clauses such as “Confidentiality”, “Non-Compete”, etc., or even Appointing “Contractual Employees” or “Employees on outsourced basis”, as well as effecting Terminations of Contracts or various categories of
Employees, and so also addressing issues relating to Fraud, Sexual Harassment, etc., in which our firm specializes and addresses, by taking into consideration the legality and also by finding practical amicable solutions.

He has Authored the Following Commentaries on Labour Laws which are in circulation since more than 2 Decades, Namely

1.The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (3 volumes)
2.The Factories Act, 1948
3.The Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act, 1970
4.The Maharashtra Recognition of Trade Unions and Prevention of Unfair Labour Practices Act, 1971.
5.The Employees Provident Fund & Miscellaneous
Provision Act, 1952. 6.The Employees State Insurance Act, 1948
7.The Employees Compensation Act, 1923
8.The Trade Union Act, 1926.
9.The Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972. Etc.

He has been actively associated with many Employer organizations and has conducted several seminars and workshops. He has also written and read papers on labour laws in the Employer’s seminars. He has also written legal bulletin on behalf of Bombay Management Association.