Pooja Ramchandani heads the Labour and Employment Law practice of the Firm. She is based out of its Delhi office.

Pooja’s area of expertise encompasses a range of matters in the field of employment and labour laws. She has advised on structuring of workforce, social security, pensions, benefits and compensation, transition of employees and implications in a corporate restructuring, integration of benefits and compensation, employee welfare benefits, employee stock options and other performance incentive schemes, contract labour analysis, closure of factories and establishments, breach of secrecy, non-compete and non-solicitation obligations, HR policies, key and non-key employment contracts, confidentiality agreements, secondment agreements, consultancy agreements, downsizing of workforce, disciplinary proceedings,  data retention, background checks, hiring, transfer and termination of employees, general compliances under employment and labour law amongst others.

Pooja assisted United Nations Development Programme with an in-depth analysis of the Indian Apprentices Act, 1961 and the Apprenticeship Rules, 1992 to advise the government on necessary changes required in the legislation for introducing to meet the objectives set out by the Indian Prime Minister in the National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme and introduction of third party agencies in the scheme of the legal framework on apprentices.

Select Experience Statement

• India’s largest low cost passenger airlines in relation to contract labour, provident fund, gratuity, and minimum wages.
• One of the largest credit card issuer in India with the structuring of the employee stock options plan in light of the proposed listing of its shares.
• A member of the World Bank Group and a leading financial institution with respect to its investment in a leading electric vehicle fleet operator.
• World’s largest multinational retail corporation’s Indian affiliate on diverse employment related matters pertaining to establishments across 22 States in India and enabling them to audit their compliances under labour legislations across the country.
• The largest South Korean Multinational Conglomerate in relation to the applicability of the Building and Other Construction Workers Act, 1996 and Building and Other Construction Workers Cess Act, 1996 with respect to its world’s largest manufacturing plant located in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Professional Memberships

• Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa

Education

• B.S.L.  LL.B, (Hons), ILS Law College, Pune