<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed><author name="Abhimanyu A. Walia"><item><title>Understanding financial emergency from the standpoint of law and policy</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/understanding-financial-emergency-from-the-standpoint-of-law-and-policy/</link><pubDate>June 9, 2020, 4:59 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/financial-emergency.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a Pandemic and India declared COVID-19 as a Notified Disaster on 14.03.2020. The Prime Minister of India on 24.03.2020 announced a complete nationwide lockdown for three weeks explaining that it was ...</excerpt></item><item><title>Are lay-offs legal?</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/legally-speaking/are-lay-offs-legal/</link><pubDate>May 20, 2020, 3:13 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/uuu-30-300x169.jpg</image><category>Legally Speaking</category><excerpt>The labour acts require work to be carried out for there to be an entitlement to wages and other benefits. When there is no work done, the owner/employer is well within his rights not to pay, subject to the contractual agreement between employer a...</excerpt></item></author></feed>