law: Apprentices Act, 1961
  22. OFFER 
  
  AND ACCEPTANCE OF EMPLOYMENT. -
  (1) It shall 
  
  not be obligatory on the part of the employer to offer any employment to any 
  
  apprentice who has completed the period of his apprenticeship training in his 
  
  establishment, nor shall it be obligatory on the part of the apprentice to 
  
  accept an employment under the employer.
  (2) 
  
  Notwithstanding anything in sub-section (1), where there is a condition in a 
  
  contract of apprenticeship shall, after the successful completion of the 
  
  apprenticeship training, serve the employer, the employer shall, on such 
  
  completion, be bound to offer suitable employment to the apprentice, and the 
  
  apprentice shall be bound to serve the employer in that capacity for such period 
  
  and on such remuneration as may be specified in the contract :
  Provided that where 
  
  such period or remuneration is not, in the opinion of the Apprenticeship 
  
  Adviser, reasonable, he may revise such period or remuneration so as to make it 
  
  reasonable, and the period or remuneration so revised shall be deemed to be the 
  
  period or remuneration agreed to between the apprentice and the employer.
  Comments:
  
   
  
  What is indeed required is to see that nation gets the benefit of time, money 
  
  and energy spend on the trainees, which would be so when they are employed in  
  
  preference to  non-trained direct recruits. This would also meet the 
  
  legitimate expectations of the trainees. U.P. State Road Transport 
  
  Corporation v. U.P. Parivahan Nigam Shishukhs Berozgar Sangh AIR 1995 SUPREME 
  
  COURT 1115