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Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 ("the ID Act") and can invoke the provisions of the ID Act for adjudication of his rights ?"

2. To answer this question, the provisions of the ID Act, the Road Transport Corporations Act and the relevant Regulations framed by the KSRTC under said Act would have to be examined.

3. For ease of reference, this judgment has been indexed as tabulated hereunder:

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46. In my view, the moment a candidate is selected for appointment (after he is made to undergo training), he would have to be considered as an employee for the purposes of the C&R Regulations. The period of training would only be a course by which the selected candidate is made to undergo an orientation to the processes followed

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NC: 2024:KHC-D:7636 and Connected matters by the KSRTC and would not mean that the selected candidate is not an employee of the KSRTC.

48. It may also be noticed here that the moment a person is paid wages, he would be in the employment of the Corporation and it is thus clear that a person who selected as a 'driver' or as a 'driver-cum-conductor' is under the employment of the Corporation as contemplated under the C&R Regulations.

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NC: 2024:KHC-D:7636 and Connected matters

49. In respect of the sums paid to the trainee as allowance, a brief look at the orders passed by the KSRTC that were furnished by the learned counsel for the KSRTC would be relevant.

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NC: 2024:KHC-D:7636 and Connected matters (4) The KSRTC can, on the basis of guilt recorded in the enquiry, discharge the services of a candidate as being unsatisfactory as provided under Regulation 11(3) of the Regulations. (5) The KSRTC would also be entitled to discharge a candidate on the ground that his services were unsatisfactory within said period of two years from the date of appointment as provided under Regulation 11(3) of the Regulations. IV. ORDERS IN RESPECTIVE WRIT PETITIONS: