Labour Law and Labour Relations

Cases and Materials

Third Edition
Revised by:
Prof. Suresh C. Srivastava
LL.D. (pal)

THE INDIAN LAW INSTITUTE

NEW DELHI
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Preface to the Third Edition jjj

Front the Preface to the First Edition v
Table of Cases
A. Principal Cases xxi
B. Cases Cited in the Text and Footnotes xxvii
PART!
INTRODUCTION
I. The Concept and Evolution of Labour Relations Law 1
II. Judicial Approaches to Labour Relations Law 3
A. Constitutional Frame work and Industrial Relations 3
B. Trade Unions, Collective Bargaining and Tripartism 4
C. Industry, Workman, Employer, Individual and Industrial Dispute 6
D. Settlementof Industrial Dispute 10
E Strikes, Lock-outs, Gherao and Bandh 13
F. Lay-off, Retrenchment, Closure and Transfer 17
G Regulation of Managemente Prerogative During Pendency of
Proceedings Under Sections 33 and 33 A 21
H. ExecutionofExistingRights 22
I. Termination of Service and Domestic Enquiry 24
J. Unfair Labour Practices and Victimization 27
K. Standing Orders 28
III. Emerging Issues 30

PARTH
CONSTITUTIONALFRAMEWORK AND INDUSTRIALRELATIONS
I. The Policy 32
II. Constitutional Provisions Setting out Goal-Values 33
III. Fundamental Rights as Limitations on Legislative Competency 33
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IV. The Scheine of Distribution of Powers 34

A. Constitutional Operation of the Scheme in the Field of
Industrial Relations 35
V Constitutional Provisions Relating to Appeals from Awards 37
Bharat Bank Ltd. v. Their Employees 3,4,38
S. G Chemicals & Dyes Trading Employees' Union v. S. G
Chemicals & Dyes Trading Ltd. 44
Maneka Gandhi v. Union oflndia 45
People's Union for Democratic Rights v. Union oflndia 50
Central Inland Water Transport Corporation Limited v.
Brojo Nath Ganguly 65
Delhi Development Horticulture Employees' Union v.
Delhi Administration & Others 69
Vishaka v. State of Rajasthan 3,73
Avas Vikas Sansthan & Anr. v. Avas Vikas Sansthan Engineers
81
Assn.&Ors.
Secretary, State ofKamataka and Others v. Umadevi and Others 88
Kapila Hingorani v. State of Bihar 96

PARTW
TRADE UNIONS, COLLECIWE BARG AINING AND TRIPARTISM

I. Trade Unions '01

A. Mode of Registration 102
B. Rulesof Trade Unions 1° 3
C. Membership Fee 103
D. Cancellation of Registration 104
E Outsiders in Trade Unions 104
F. Recognition of Trade Unions 104
T. T. Devasthanam v. Commissioner of Labour 105
Indian Oxygen Ltd. v. Their Workmen 107
Tamil Nadu Electricity Board Accounts and
Executive Staff Union v. Tamil Nadu Electricity Board 111
North-Eastern Railway Employees' Union v. Regist rar of Trade Unions 112
Karnataka Bank Employees' Association v. Commissioner of Labour 114
Philips Workers' Union v. Registrar, Trade Unions 116
Ratan Kumar Dey v. Union oflndia 120
Food Corporation oflndia Staff Union v. Food Corporation oflndia ' 121
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Borosil Glass Works Ltd.Employees' Union v. D.D. Bambode 124

Government Tool Room and Training Centre 's Supervisory &
Officers 'Association v. Assistant Labour Commissioner 127
Bokajan Cement Corpn. Employees' Union v. Cement Corpn. oflndia Ltd. 129
Tata Workers Union v. State ofJharkhand 132
G Immunity from Criminal Conspiracy 133
H. Immunity from Civil Suit in certain cases 136
Rohtas Industries Ltd. v. Rohtas Industries Staff Union 136
Vidya Sagar Institute of Mental Health Neuro Sciences v.
Vidya Sagar Hospital Employees' Union 143
I. The Closed Shop 147
II. Collective Bargaining 148
III. Tripartism 156
PARTIV
INDUSTRY, WORKMAN, EMPLOYER, INDIVIDUAL DISPUTE AND
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE
I. Industry 161
Bangalore Water Supply And Sewerage Board v. A. Rajappa 164
Karnani Properties Ltd. v. State ofWest Bengal 180
Sub-Divisional Inspector ofPost, Vaikam v. Theyyam Joseph 182
Physical Research Laboratory v. K.J. Sharma 184
General Manager, Telecom v. A . Srinrvasa Rao 187
All lndia Radio v. Santosh Kumar 189
Coir Board, Ernakulam, Cochin v. Indira Devi P.S. 190
Coir Board Ernakulam Kerala State v. Indira Devi P.S. 194
Agricultural Produce Market Committee v. Ashok Harikuni 195
State ofU.P.M. Jai Bir Singh 198
II. Workman 213
Dharangadhara Chemical Works Ltd. v. State ofSaurashtra 215
D.C. Dewqn Mohideen Sahib & Sons v. UnitedBidi Workers' Union 221
S.K. Verma v. Mahesh Chandra 224
HR. Adyanthaya & Others v. Sandoz (lndia) Ltd & Others 226
Miss A . Sundarambal v. Govt. ofGoa, Daman & Diu 235
Management ofM/s Puri Urban Co-operative Bank v.
Madhusudan Sahu 238
S. K. Maini v. M/s Carona Sahu Company Limited 239
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Heavy Engineering Corporation Ltd. v. Presiding

Ofßcer, Labour Court 243
Hussan Mithu Mhasvadkar v. Bombay Iron & Steel Labour Board 246
Indian Banks Association v. Workmen ofSyndicate Bank 248
Bongaigaon Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd. v. Samijuddin Ahmed 250
M/s Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited v. State ofUttar Pradesh & Ors. 251
Workmen ofthe Canteen ofCoates oflndia Ltd. v. Coates oflndia Ltd. 254
Workmen ofNilgiri Cooperative Marketing Society Ltd. v.
State of Tamil Nadu 255
Mukesh K. Tripathi v. Senior Divisional Manager, LIC 263
Sonepat Co-operative Sugar Mills Ltd. v. Ajit Singh 268
III. Ernployer 272
Western lndia Automobile Association v. Industrial Tribunal 272
IV. Individual Dispute and Industrial Dispute 276
Newspapers Ltd. v. State Industrial Tribunal, Uttar Pradesh 277
Workmen of Dimakuchi Tea Estate v. Management of
Dimakuchi Tea Estate 286
J. H. Yadhav v. Forbes Gokak Ltd. 291
Shri Rameshwar Manjhi (Deceased) v. Management of
Sangramgarh Colliery 293

PARTV
SETTLEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES

I. Works Committees 301

Northbrook Jute Company v. Their Workmen 302
Bangali Raje v. Union oflndia 303
Prafulla Mohan Das v. Steel Authority oflndia 307
II. Conciliation 308
Fabril Gasosa v. Labour Commissioner 311
III. VoluntaryArbitration 314
Engineering Mazdoor Sabha v. Hind Cycles Ltd. 315
Air Corporations Employees' Union v. D. V. Vyas 321
Gujarat Steel Tubes Ltd v. Gujarat Steel Tubes Mazdoor Sabha 323
IV. Adjudication 335
National Council for Cement & Building Material v.
State ofHaryana and Others 340
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U. P. State Bridge Corpn Ltd. v. U. P. Rajya Setu Nigam S.

Karamchari Sangh 342
Rajasthan State Road Transport Corpn v. Zakir Hussain 343
State qf Madras v. C.P. Sarathy 348
State of Bombay v. K. P. Krishnan 352
Avon Services Production Agencies (P) Ltd. v.
Industrial Tribunal, Haryana 355
Ram Avtar Sharma & Anr v. State of Haryana & Anr. 359
Telco Convoy Drivers Mazdoor Sangh v. State of Bihar 363
B.S. Bharti v. IBP Co. Ltd. 366
Secretary Indian Tea Association v. Ajit Kumar Barat 367
Sirsilk Ltd. v. Government ofAndhra Pradesh 370
Remington Rand oflndia Ltd. v. The Workmen 373
Hebertsons Ltd. v. Their Workmen 375
Adminstrator, Kamla Nehru Memorial Hospital v. Vinod Kumar 377
Workmen v. /. T.I. Cycles oflndia Ltd. 377
Shukla Manseta Industries Pvt. Ltd. v. The Workmen 378
£//e Insurance Corporation oflndia v. DJ. Bahadur 381
V Grievance Procedure 386

PART VI
STRIKES, LOCK-OUTS, GHERAO AND BANDH

I. Strikes and Lock-outs 393

Punjab National Bank v. Their Employees 395
lndia General Navigation and Railway Co. Ltd. v. Their Workmen 399
Delhi Administration v. Workmen of Edward Keventers 402
Chemicals and Fibres oflndia Ltd. v. DG Bhoir 403
Chandramalai Estate v. /te Workmen 409
77je Statesman Ltd. v. 77ie/> Workmen 410
Crompton Greaves Limited v. 77ie('r Workmen 412
£/./> S t a e Är/a'ge Co/p«. £/</ v. £/./' Rajya Setu Nigam
S. Karamchari Sangh 412
Kairbetta Estate, Kotagiri v. Rajamanickam 415
Lax/m Dev; Sugar A/i/fc /./</. v. flam Swarup 417
Feroz D/n v. State ofWest Bengat 418
II. RighttoStrike 423
AH lndia Bank Employees'Association v. National Industrial Tribunal 423
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Kameshwar Prasad v. State ofBihar 426

T.K. Rangarajan v. Government of Tamil Nadu 427
B.R. Singh v. Union oflndia 433
III. Gherao 436
Jay Engineering Works Ltd. v. State ofWest Bengal 436
IV. Bundh 440
Bharat Kumar K. Palicha and Another v. State ofKerala and Others 440
Communist Party oflndia (M) v. Bharat Kumar 444

PART VII

LAY-OFF, RETRENCHMENT, CLOSURE AND TRANSFER

I. Lay-off and Retrenchment 445
A. Lay-off 448
B. Retrenchment 448
K. T. Rolling Mills v. Meher 451
Associated Cement Companies Ltd. v. Their Workmen 454
Workmen ofDewan Tea Estate v. Their Management 457
Workmen ofFirestone Tyre and Rubber Company oflndia Ltd. v.
The Firestone Tyre and Rubber Company 460
Hariprasad Shiv Shanker Shukla v. A.D. Divelkar
(Barsi Light Rly. Co. v. K.N. Joglekar) 464
State Bank oflndia v. N. Sundara Money 466
Santosh Gupta v. State Bank ofPatidla 468
Surendra Kumar Verma v. Central Government
Industrial Tribunal-Cum-Labour Court, New Delhi 471
Uptron lndia Ltd. v. Shammi Bhan 474
Haryana State FC. C. W. Store Ltd. v. Ram Niwas 476
Anand Bihari v. Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation 478
The Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board v.
Subhash Chand & Anr. 484
Kishore Chandra Samal v. Divisional Manager, Orissa State
Cashew Development Corporation Ltd. 486
Surendranagar District Panchayat v. Jethabhai Pitamberbhai 489
Bombay Union of Journalists v. State of Bombay 492
May and Baker (lndia) Ltd. v. Their Workmen 494
Sur Enamel and Stamping Works v. Their Workmen 496
Workmen ofSudder Workshop ofJorehaut Tea Co. Ltd. v.
Management ofJorehaut Tea Co. Ltd. 497
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State of Haryana v. Om Prakash 498

State ofM.P. & Ors. v. Arjunlal Rajak 500
Batala Cooperative Sugar Mills Ltd. v. Sowaran Singh 502
Manager, Reserve Bank oflndia v. 5. Mani 505
Administrator, Kamla Nehru Memorial v. Vinod Kumar 514
Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation v. S.G. Kotturappa
and Another 517
R.M. Yellatti v. The Asst. Executive Engineer 521
The Workmen ofBhurkunda Colliery of'M/s Central Coalfields Ltd. v.
The Management ofBhurkunda Colliery ofM/s Central Coalfields Ltd. 524
II. Closure and Transfer 526
Hathising Manufacturing Co. v. Union oflndia 528
Excel Wear v. Union oflndia 534
Gurmail Singh v. State ofPunjab 537
S.G. Chemicals & Dyes Trading Employee 's Union v.
S. G. Chemicals & Dyes Trading Ltd. 544
Oswal Agro Furane Ltd. v. Workers Union 550
Vazir Glass Works Ltd. v. Maharashtra General Kamgar Union 553
Central Bank oflndia v. S. Satyam 557
Regional Manager, State Bank oflndia v. Rakesh Kumar Tiwari 560

PART VIII

REGULATION OF MANAGEMENTS PREROGATTVE DURING

PENDENCY OF PROCEEDINGS UNDER SECTION 33

I. Introductory Note 566

A. Alterations in Conditions of Service :
Sections33(l)(A)And33(2)(A) 568
B. Discharge or Dismissal for Misconduct:
Sections 33(1) (B), 33(2) (B) (With its Proviso) and 33(5) 568
C. Nature of the Restrictions in Regard to Protected Workmen :
Section 33(3) And 33(4) 568
D. The Remedy to an Aggrieved Workman : Section 33 A 569
Automobile Products oflndia Ltd. v. Rukmaji Bala 569
District Transport Manager (Admn.) O.S.R.TC v. Dilip Kumar Nayak 573
Blue Star Employees Union v. Ex. Off. Principal Secretary to Govt. 575
Ram Lakhan v. Presiding Officer 577
BPL Ltd. v. R. Sudhakar 584
Cholan Roadways Ltd. v. G. Thirugnanasambandam 589
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H. Notice ofChange 594

Introductory 594
KEC International Ltd.\. Kamani Employees' Union and Anr. 596

PARTIX
EXECXJTIONOFEXKTINGRIGHTS
Central Bank oflndia v. Rajagopalan 604
Fabril Gasosa v. Labour Commissioner 607
Ajaib Singh v. Sirhind Coop. Marketing-cum-processing
Service Society Ltd. 609
State ofU.P. v. Brijpal Singh 612
APSRTC & anr. v. B.S. David Paul 616
Union oflndia v. Kankuben (Dead) by LRS and Others 618
PARTX
TERMINATION OF SERVICE AND DOMESTIC ENQUIRY
Buckingham & Carnatic Mills Ltd. v. Their Workers 624
Workmen ofM/s Firestone Tyre & Rubber Co. of
lndia (P) Ltd. v. The Management 632
State Bank oflndia v. Workmen of State Bank oflndia 638
Punjab & Sind Bank v. Sakattar Singh 642
Punjab Dairy Development Corpn. Ltd. v. Kala Singh 644
Neeta Kaplish v. Presiding Officer, Labour Court 646
Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd. v. N.B. Narawade 648
M.P. Electricity Board v. Jagdish Chandra Sharma 651
L. K. Verma v. H. M. T. Ltd. &Anr. 654
Muriadih Colliery of Bharat Coking Coal Ltd., v.
Bihar Colliery Kamgar Union Through Workmen 658
V. Ramana v. APSRTC & Ors. 660
U.P. State Textile Corporation Ltd. v. P.C. Chaturvedi and Ors. 666
National Fertilizers Ltd. and Anr. v. P.K. Khanna 671
Karnataka Bank Ltd. v. A.L. Mohan Rao 674
M/s Maharashtra State Seeds Corpn. Ltd. v. Haridas & Anr. 675
Manager, Reserve Bank oflndia v. S. Mani 678
Chairman-cum-M. D., T.N.C.S. Corpn Ltd. v. K. Meerabai 680
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PARTX1
UNFAIRLABOURPRACTICESANDVICTIMISATION
Eveready Flash Light Company v. Labour Court, Bareilly 690
Regional Manager, S.B.l. v. Rakesh Kumar Tewari 693
CEA T Ltd. v. Anand Abasaheb Hawaldar & Ors. 693
The Haryana State Agricultural Marketing v. Subhash Lhand &Anr. 698
Workmen ofM/s. Williamson Magor & Co. Ltd. v. M/s. Williamson
Magor & Co. Ltd. 699

PART XU
STANDING ORDERS
Introductory Note 701
Bagalkot Cement Co., Ltd. v. R. K. Pathan & others 703
Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation v. Krishna Kant & Anr 706
Rohtak & Hissar District Electric Supply Coprn v. State ofü'.P. 706
Indian Express and Chronicle Press v. M C. Kapur 708
U. P. State Electricity Board & Ors v. Hari Shankar Jain & Ors. 709
M/s Ghaziabad Engineering Co. Pvt. Ltd. v. The Certifying Officer
& Ors. 712
Shahdara (Delhi) - Saharanpur Light Railway Company Ltd. v.
Shahdara—Saharanpur Railway Workers' Union 713
Calcutta Electric Supply Corpn. Ltd. v. Shew Kr. Singh 718
Delhi Transport Corporation v. Sardar Singh 720
Scooters lndia Ltd. v. M. Mohammad Yaqub Aur 723
Barauni Reßnery Pragatisheel Shramik Parishad v.
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. T2A
D K. Yadav v. J.M.A. Industries Ltd. 727
Uptron lndia Ltd. v. Shammi Bhan 731
Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation v. Krishna Kant & Others 736
Ajit Kumar Nag v. General Manager (P.J.) Indian
Oil Corporation Ltd., Haidia & Ors. 738
State of Madhya Pradesh v. Onkar Prasad Patel 746

SUBJECT INDEX 748