Atul Gupta

Lawyer biography

• He is a senior partner in the Employment practice, which he helped establish, and now leads.
• Atul's practice covers all aspects of employment law, with extensive capabilities and experience in dealing with high value, complex and sensitive matters - from large scale M&A, acqui-hire, outsourcing/insourcing deals with significant employment law elements to strategic union negotiations and bargaining, from sensitive workplace harassment and misconduct investigations to large scale employee exits and restructurings, from representing clients in high value regulatory assessments on social security/PF compliances to handholding them through complex and sensitive senior employee separations.
• A leading authority and thought leader on Indian labour and employment laws, his views on key developments have featured in major newspapers and are sought by major industry and trade bodies like the CII, NASSCOM, IFCCI, UKIBC, etc.
• Atul has recently been invited to join the CII Task Force on Ease of Doing Business and by the Central Provident Fund Commissioner (who heads India's largest social security and pension fund) to advise the Employees’ Provident Fund Organization on various key changes to Indian social security laws.
• Atul formally deposed as an expert on the Central Provident Fund Commissioner's task force on decriminalizing provisions of the Employee's Provident Fund Act and alternatives to reliance on AADHAAR to facilitate social security inclusion.
• He helped write draft crèche related rules for submission to the Karnataka government and other State governments through the CII and NASSCOM.
• Atul has been requested by the CII's Task Force on Ease of Doing Business to guide the Central Ministry of Labour and Employment in its initiatives to streamline laws and improve India's investor friendliness, by authoring and submitting an extensive report on Decriminalization of Indian Employment Laws.
• Atul regularly conducts training sessions for clients on “Risk, Reward & Reputation Management Issues for Senior Executives & Founders”, “Managing Within the Law” and compliance with the law on "Sexual Harassment prevention", and also contributes to legal publications.