H.P. State Electricity Board And Anr. vs Presiding Officer And Ors. on 30 December, 1998
In G. Venkataramanappa v. C. Kotappa 1988 LIC 958 a Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court observed while dealing with the claim for minimum bonus in an application under Section 33-C(2) of the Act that the claim for money that can be enforced under the Act need not necessarily arise out of the Industrial Disputes Act itself, and inasmuch as the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 is not a self contained code in respect of investigation and determination of disputes and so far as the rates and liability created under the said Act, the Labour Court can deal with the claim, if need be even going into the question of the existence of the rates disputed by an employer in a private sector as an incidental power available while exercising the main power.