Ms. Nirmala Mary is the Practice Head for the Labour Law Compliance and Audit Practice at TLA, Bangalore. She has been in practice for 10+ years. She handles both advisory as well as the audit and compliance aspects of this practice for clients across multiple industry sectors, including IT and manufacturing.  

Ms. Nirmala has significant experience in advising and supporting clients on the intricacies of labour law compliance, including legal applicability, statutory filings and returns, and devising early warning compliance systems. As part of her role, she frequently interacts with statutory authorities to ensure timely and full legal compliance. She also advises and deploys compliance audits in the labour and employment space and assesses and maps compliance risks and evolves risk mitigation strategies that synergise with client business and compliance environments. This advice extends to conducting vendor audits to assess and redress vendor labour law compliance, particularly focusing on areas that expose the client in its capacity as a principal employer to compliance, operational or financial risk, if the vendors fail to comply with such laws. 

Ms. Nirmala also advises the client on labour department notices and department action and represents the client before the appropriate authorities in such matters. 

Key Labour Compliance Expertise

Ms. Nirmala advises extensively on a wide range of labour compliance and audit matters; key ones include:

• Wages, Benefits, and Compensation: Advising on compliance aspects of wage and benefits law in India.
• POSH (Prevention of Sexual Harassment): Advising on the compliance aspects of India’s POSH law, including ICC constitution and filings and returns. 
• Labour Audit and Compliance: Conducting labour audits and compliance reviews, including risk mapping, analysis, and mitigation strategies. Conducting vendor audits to minimize principal employer exposure.
• Labour law Compliance: Advising on and supporting clients on their labour law compliance requirements, including legal applicability, securing registrations and approvals and ensuring on-time filings and returns under Shops and Commercial Establishments law, statutory benefit laws, and other labour laws, developing early warning compliance trackers and representing clients in departmental actions. Such support extends to advising clients in Karnataka on the impact of the recent gratuity insurance rules and securing registrations and filings under these rules.