Prakash Kashiram Sawant And Othersq vs M/S Motherson Advanced Tooling ... on 3 July, 2019
In our judgment, the decision in National
General Mazdoor Union (supra) does not recognise and give full
effect to the amplitude of the non-obstante clause in Section 32.
In our judgment, the enumeration of the respective
jurisdictional limits of the Industrial Court and Labour Court,
provided in Sections 5 and 7 of the 1971 Act, when read with
the non-obstante provision in Section 32 of the 1971 Act,
means this : A substantive Complaint can be entertained by
the Court (Labour Court or Industrial Court) only with regard to
the matters provided in Section 5 or 7. If a complaint is
substantively made to the Industrial Court, then by reason of
Section 5(b), it has no jurisdiction to entertain a Complaint
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relating to unfair labour practices falling under Item I of
Schedule IV of the 1971 Act; conversely, a Complaint of unfair
labour practice falling only under Item 1 of Schedule IV can be
entertained by the Labour Court, but not any other complaint.
This does not, however, mean that while trying a substantive
Complaint legitimately falling within its jurisdictional purview,
the Labour Court or Industrial Court is precluded from
moulding the relief as required by the facts of the case."