work at I p.m. after the lunch hour
amounted to a lockout and that this conduct of the appellant
amounted to punishment ... Tribunal. Even if it be held that the appellant had
declared a lockout, such a lockout was in consequence of the
illegal strike resorted
turn of an illegal and disorderly
strike. The management declared a lockout. On the day
following the declaration of lockout, the workmen requested
the management ... lift the lockout proferring peaceful
resumption of work and asking for an interim relief on their
economic demands. The management did not agree to lift
wages were denied to the workers from the date of alleged lockout i.e. 8.10.98 till 1.3.99 in these Letters Patent Appeals, mainly, the following ... points arise :-
(1) Whether the lockout was justifiable or not can be gone into by the Industrial Court under item 9 of Schedule
dismissal. retrenchment or termination of service of a workman, but concerns a lockout. It is only where the dispute relates to either discharge, dismissal, retrenchment ... raise, rest of the industrial disputes including disputes pertaining to illegal lockout, lay-off and lay-off compensation have to be filtered through the process
impugned order dated 10.02.2000 prohibiting the continuance of a lockout passed by the Secretary (Labour) under Section 10(3) of the Industrial Disputes ... immense danger to life and property, the petitioner company decided to declare lockout in its factory from 13.01.2000. The petitioner informed the Labour Commissioner about
gratuity payable on discharge ; (g) the expressions "appropriate Government", "employer", "lockout", "strike" and "workman" have the meanings respectively assigned to them in section
closure as claimed by Sri R. N. Goenka, it is a lockout which is illegal". On 30th April, 1959, the Commissioner of Labour wrote ... prohibiting the continuance of the strike and the reprisal "lockout" in the Express Newspapers (Private) Limited, at Madras. The wording of the reference
favour of the workmen of the 2nd respondent-Company that the lockout declared by the Company from January 13. 1964, was Illegal, and even ... question of relief which the workmen claimed it held that the lockout was justified and the workmen would not be entitled to any reliei
reference was on the question as to whether a lockout declared by the management of the First Respondent with effect from 26th ... 12th August 1994 that the question as to the legality of the lockout had already been decided on 5th May 1983 in a judgment
contract and no employer of any such
workman shall declare a lockout-
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(a) during the pendency of conciliation proceedings before
a Board and seven ... weapon available to the
employees for enforcing their industrial
demands, a lockout is a weapon available to
the employer to persuade by a coercive process
