CS Professional · June 2025 · Paper 7.3
CS Professional Labour Laws and Practice June 2025: paper analysis
Our own analysis of the official paper, as of 12 October 2026. The questions and answers belong to ICSI; read them on ICSI's website.
Chapter-wise marks
Where the marks were in this paper (out of 100; internal-choice alternatives not double counted).
What each question tested
In our words, by question number. Open the official paper for the full question.
| Q | Marks | Tests | Chapter |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1(a) | 5 | Maintainability of a writ petition against a private company challenging retrenchment | Constitution and Labour Laws |
| 1(b) | 5 | Scope of the statutory definition of retrenchment as interpreted by the Supreme Court | Law of Industrial Relations |
| 1(c) | 5 | Whether a labour court or tribunal can travel beyond the terms of reference | Law of Industrial Relations |
| 1(d) | 5 | Sympathetic cessation of work in support of other employer workmen: whether a strike | Law of Industrial Relations |
| 1(e) | 5 | Small and very small establishments and their exemption from labour law returns and registers | The Labour Laws (Simplification of Procedure for Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Registers by Certain Establishments) Act, 1988 |
| 2(a) | 5 | Continuity of service for gratuity on deputation to a foreign group company | Social Security Legislations |
| 2(b)(i) | 5 | Validity of internal committee recommendation and charge sheet after rejecting a sexual harassment complaint | Law of Welfare and Working Condition |
| 2(b)(ii) | 5 | Limits on moral policing by management or internal complaints committee, with case law | Law of Welfare and Working Condition |
| 2(c)(i) | 5 | Whether a personnel officer is a statutory welfare officer protected against termination | Law of Welfare and Working Condition |
| 2(c)(ii) | 5 | Statutory requirements for appointment of a welfare officer and their compliance | Law of Welfare and Working Condition |
| 3(a) | 5 | Withholding gratuity of a superannuated employee during pending disciplinary proceedings | Social Security Legislations |
| 3(b) | 5 | Death from work stress while on duty as employment injury by accident | Social Security Legislations |
| 3(c) | 5 | Appeals under the Code on Wages: who may appeal and time limit | Law of Wages |
| 3(d) | 5 | Company secretary as compliance officer under the Labour Codes | Industrial and Labour Laws Audit |
| 3(e) | 5 | Prohibition of gender discrimination in wages under the Code on Wages | Law of Wages |
| 4(a) | 5 | Judicial review of minimum wage fixation notifications, with case law | Law of Wages |
| 4(b) | 5 | Termination of a contract employee without disciplinary enquiry | Law of Industrial Relations |
| 4(c) | 5 | Whether garment alteration in a retail shop is a manufacturing process making the shop a factory under ESI | Social Security Legislations |
| 4(d) | 5 | Constitutional protection of labour: right to life, liberty and against exploitation | Constitution and Labour Laws |
| 4(e) | 5 | Provident fund contribution for international workers on full pay and damages for delayed remittance | Social Security Legislations |
What stood out
- All four questions were compulsory with no alternatives, and every one of the 20 entries carried 5 marks.
- Social security legislation led with 25 marks (gratuity continuity and withholding, employment injury, ESI coverage of a shop, PF on international workers), followed by industrial relations and welfare law at 20 marks each.
- The paper is heavily case-law driven: the opening retrenchment case alone asked about writ maintainability, scope of retrenchment, tribunal reference limits and sympathetic strikes.
- Questions mixed the legacy labour statutes in fact patterns with Labour Code provisions in direct questions, such as appeals and equal remuneration under the Code on Wages and the company secretary compliance role under the Codes.
Practise the chapters that carried the marks
Social Security Legislations, Law of Industrial Relations, Law of Welfare and Working Condition: study guides and practice questions in the CS Professional format.