A story from RussiaToday, nothing new to most of us but amusing.

Extraordinary steps needed to fire employee who did not show for work for 24 years. It took 2 years to establish the fact, then 22 years for legal process.

" The government had found him guilty back in 1992, but bureaucratic hurdles – and the fact that it’s notoriously difficult to fire someone in India, short of the person committing a criminal offense – meant it took 22 years, together with an intervention by a cabinet minister, to terminate Verma’s employment.
The World Bank has in the past commented on India’s labor laws as the most restrictive of any country. "