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Section 25FFF in The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 [Entire Act]
Lal Mohammad & Ors vs Indian Railway Construction Co.Ltd. & ... on 11 January, 2007
12. The counsel for the respondent workmen has on the contrary
contended that if the respondent workmen are found to be employees of the
Project then they would be governed by Section 25FFF(2) but their
contention is that they are employees not of the Project but of the petitioner
Company and were working in one of the Projects of the petitioner
Company. He has further argued that it has never been the case of the
respondent workmen that they were recruited only for a particular Project.
He has argued that each of the respondent workmen is a skilled workman
and the Recruitment Rules relied upon by the petitioner relate to executive
posts while the rules applicable are those for non executive posts and as per
which they became entitled to absorption after completion of five years of
employment and which they had. He has further contended that the
contracts of appointment placed by the petitioner before this Court and relied
upon as aforesaid did not form part of the record of the Industrial
Adjudicator and thus cannot be considered. He has further contended that
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none of the admissions attributed to the respondent workmen and as noticed
in para 10 hereinabove are admissions of being Project employees but only
amount to admissions of working in the Project. He claims that the
respondent workmen are entitled to Section 25F protection and the question
for determination was whether the respondent workmen were employees of
the petitioner Company or of the Project and which has not been determined
either by the Industrial Adjudicator at Delhi or by the Industrial Tribunal at
Agra. He has further contended that in the judgment Lal Mohammad Vs.
Indian Railway Construction Co. Ltd. AIR 2007 SC 230 relied upon by the
petitioner, there was a finding of the employees therein being employees of
the Project and which is not the case here. He has further contended that
some of the respondent workmen had been transferred and which was one of
the disputes referred to the Industrial Tribunal, Agra; there could be no
question of Project employees being transferred and the same was also
indicative of the respondent workmen being the employees of the petitioner
Company and not of the Project. Reliance is placed on the judgment dated
4th August, 2005 of the High Court of Allahabad in Civil Misc.
Ircon International Ltd. vs Shri Baikunth Nath Dubey S/O Shri Kamla ... on 4 August, 2005
WP No.
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9762/2003 titled Ircon International Ltd. Vs. Baikunth Nath Dubey &
Ors.. He has yet further contended that the factual findings of the Industrial
Adjudicator are not to be interfered with.
Harjinder Singh vs Punjab State Warehousing Corp on 5 January, 2010
Reliance in this regard is placed
on Harjinder Singh Vs. Punjab State Warehousing Corporation 2010 (1)
SCALE 613 and it is contended that judgments of earlier date relied upon by
the petitioner are to be ignored.
Bharat Barrel & Drum ... vs Bharat Barrel Employees Union on 9 April, 1987
17. The Supreme Court in Bharat Barrel & Drum Mfg. Co. (P) Ltd. Vs.
Employees Union (1987) 2 SCC 591 held that rule of res judicata applies to
proceedings before the Industrial Tribunals also. It was held that any
legislation regulating the relation between the Capital and the Labour, as the
Industrial Disputes Act is, has two objects in view - it seeks to ensure to the
workmen fair returns for their labour, it also seeks to prevent disputes
between employer and employees, so that production might not be adversely
affected and the larger interests of the society might not suffer. It was held
that to hold that the rule of res judicata does not apply to industrial disputes
would rather than bringing in industrial peace, make the awards mere truces
giving only breathing time before resuming hostile action with renewed
vigour.
Shri Balley vs M.C.D. & Ors on 8 March, 2010
19. The said action dated 3rd June, 1998 was post the award of the
Industrial Tribunal, Agra and thus could not possibly be subject thereof.
Even otherwise, merely because the respondent workmen had been held by
the Industrial Tribunal, Agra to be employees of the Mathura Project and ad-
hoc and not entitled to absorption in any other Project of the petitioner
Company, would not deprive the respondent workmen from raising a dispute
as to their termination. It is settled position in law (see Balley Vs. MCD ILR
(2010) VI Delhi 44 discussing the case law on the subject) that the
provisions of Section 25F of the I.D. Act apply to both the regular as well as
the temporary or ad-hoc employees if they have completed more than 240
days of employment and which the respondent workmen in the instant case
had.
Management Of Hindustan Steel Ltd vs The Workmen & Ors on 12 January, 1973
11. The senior counsel for the petitioner has contended that in view of the
aforesaid material on record and inspite of the Industrial Adjudicator
noticing the judgment of the Apex Court in Management of Hindustan
Steel Ltd. Vs. The Workmen (1973) 3 SCC 564, the Industrial Adjudicator
has held to the contrary, making the award perverse and liable to be set
aside. It is further contended that the respondent workmen before this Court
have for the first time made out a new case of being employees of the
petitioner Company and not of the Project.