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The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
The Standard-Vacuum Refining Co.Of ... vs Its Workmen And Others on 6 April, 1960
After considering the decisions
of the Apex Court in Workmen of Dimakuchi Tea Estate v. The
Management of Dimakuchi Tea Estate ((1958) I LLJ 500) and
Standard Vacuum Refining Co. of India Ltd. v. Its Workmen and
Ors. ((1960) II LLJ 233) and the entire case law, the Supreme
Court held that in view of Section 10 of the Contract Labour
(Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 only the appropriate
Government has the authority to abolish contract labour in
accordance with the provisions of that Act and no court
including the Industrial Adjudicator has jurisdiction to
abolish contract labour. If the contract is genuine,
dispute regarding their service conditions cannot be raised
against the management of main establishment by the
employees or union of the contractor's employees; but, such
disputes can be raised by the Union of workmen in the
main establishment. It was also held that if the contract
is sham or not, the workmen of the so called contractor can
raise an industrial dispute for declaring that they were
always the employees of the principal employer. In
paragraph 50 of the decision in Gujarat Electricity Board's
case (supra), it was held as follows:
Vst Industries Ltd vs Vst Industries Workers Union & Anr on 7 December, 2000
This matter was again discussed and power of the
industrial tribunal to decide the question was considered
again by the Apex Court in VST Industries Ltd. v. VST
Industries Workers' Union and Anr. (JT 2001 (1) SC 36).
Indian Petrochemicals Corporation ... vs Shramik Sena And Ors on 4 August, 1999
Tests laid down to consider when employees of the canteen
can be treated as employees after referring to Indian
Petrochemicals Corporation Limited v. Shramik Sena and
Ors. (JT 1999 (5) SCC 339), Reserve Bank of India v.
Workmen (JT 1996 (3) SC 226), MMR Khan v. Union of India
(JT 1990 (3) SC 1) and Parimal Chandra Raha's case (supra)
were laid down as follows:
Air India Statutory Corporation vs United Labour Union & Ors on 6 November, 1996
268), a Constitution Bench held that abolition of contract
labour can be done by the appropriate Government as
provided under the Contract Labour (Regulation and
Abolition) Act and not by the industrial tribunal or by any
other forum. But, overruling the dicta laid down in Air
India Statutory Corporation and Ors. v. United Labour
Union and Ors. (JT 1996 (11) SC 109 = (1997) 9 SCC 377),
it was held that even if contract system is abolished in any
area, principal employer is not bound to accept them as
their employees and there is no automatic absorption. After
analysing the case law including Gujarat Electricity Board's
case (supra) and all other previous cases regarding the
question whether contract is a sham or not, it was held as
follows: