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Recruiting agent

Recruiting agent, means a person engaged in India in the business of recruitment for an employer and representing such employer with respect to any matter in relation to such recruitment including dealings with persons so recruited or desiring to be so recruited. [Emigration Act, 1983 (31 of 1983), s. 2(1) (l)]...


Recruitment

Recruitment, 'recruitment' according to the dictionary means 'enlist'. It is a comprehensive term and includes any method provided for inducting a person in public service. Appointment, selection, promotion, deputation are all well-known methods of recruitment. Even appointment by transfer is not unknown, K. Narayanan v. State of Karnataka, AIR 1994 SC 55: (1994) Supp 1 SCC 44.The term 'recruitment' connotes and clearly signifies enlistment, acceptance, selection or approval for appointment. Certainly, this is not actual appointment or posting in service. In contradistinction the word 'appointment' means an actual act of posting a person to a particular office, Prafulla Kumar Swain v. Prakash Chandra Misra, (1993) Supp 3 SCC 181.It includes entering into any agreement or other arrangement for recruitment and all its grammatical variations and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly. [Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1979, ...


Recruitment year

Recruitment year, means the English calendar year during which the recruitment is actually made, Maharashtra State Public Services (Reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, De-Notified Tribes (Vimukta Jatis) Nomadic Tribes, Special Backward Categories and Other Backward Classes) Act, 2001, s. 2(j).Means the year in which recruitment is actually made, S. Rajendran v. Union of India, (1998) 3 SCC 620.The recruitment year is the year in which recruit-ment takes place, but not each three successive years in which the vacancy exists, Harish Chandra Ram v. Mukh Ram Dubey, 1994 Supp (2) SCC 490 (492)....


Emigrate and emigration

Emigrate and emigration, mean the departure out of India of any person with a view to taking up any employment (whether or not under an agreement or other arrangements to take up such employment and whether with or without the assistance of a recruiting agent or employer) in any country or place outside India. [Emigration Act, 1983 (31 of 1983), s. 2(1)(f)]...


Recruit

To repair by fresh supplies as anything wasted to remedy lack or deficiency in as food recruits the flesh fresh air and exercise recruit the spirits...


Recruited direct

Recruited direct, a person is said to be 'Recruited Direct' to a post, category or class in a service, in case his first appointment thereto is made other-wise than (i) by promotion (ii) by transfer or (iii) by re-employment, G.S. Venkat Reddy v. Government of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1993 SC 2306 (2312): 1993 Supp (3) SCC 425. [Andhra Pradesh State andSubordinate Services Rules, R. 22(e) & 3(14)]...


agent

agent 1 : someone or something that acts or exerts power : a moving force in achieving some result 2 : a person guided or instigated by another in some action [where the heads of departments are the political…s of the executive, merely to execute the will of the president "Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)"] see also innocent agent 3 a : a person or entity (as an employee or independent contractor) authorized to act on behalf of and under the control of another in dealing with third parties see also agency, fiduciary relationship, subagent compare fiduciary, principal, servant apparent agent : an agent acting under an agency by estoppel bar·gain·ing agent : a labor union that represents the employees in a bargaining unit in negotiating with their employer through collective bargaining business agent : an agent that handles business affairs for another person or organization ;esp : a paid official of a union who carries on union business between the employ...


Agent

Agent, a person acting for another, whether by his express or implied authority, the general rule being, that whatever a person may do himself, that he may, as 'principal,' authorize another to do for him, and in accordance with the maxim, qui facit per alium facit per se, to fix him with the same liability in contract or tort as if he had done it himself. See BROKER, FACTOR, MERCANTILE AGENT, VICARIOUS RESPONSIBILITY, and consult Bowstead on Agency or Evans on Principal and Agent.Where the principal is disclosed, only the principal can be sued. Where the principal is not disclosed, but the agent acts as agent, either the agent or the principal, when disclosed, can be sued. If an agent represents himself as such, and contract for an undisclosed and unascertained principal, his contract may be ratified by the principal when disclosed and ascertained.Agent is a person appointed to carry on a business under the powers of a committee of a person incapable of managing his affairs or under a...


Recruiter

One who or that which recruits...


Recruitment

The act or process of recruiting especially the enlistment of men for an army...


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