bonus is the case of a
bonus annexed to the employment by custom or social
practices such as Customary bonus and Puja or Festivity
bonus ... Report of the Bonus Commission culminating in the Bonus
Act, 1965 . The story of 'war bonus', the Full Bench formula
and this Court
case of retirement or death,
payment will be made soon after the contingency.
The payment of Bonus (Amendment) Act. 1976 considerably
curtailed the rights ... question of payment of bonus was
being reviewed in the light of the Bonus Ordinance dated
25th September,, 1975, no bonus should be paid
this was a voluntary payment made with a view to
keep labour contented.
In the dispute for payment of bonus for the years ... question
of payment of bonus based on profits and to recommend
principles for computation of such bonus and methods of
payment, to determine what
covered by the Payment of Bonus Act
would not be liable
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to get bonus and ex-gratia payment in lieu of bonus. Payment ... covered by the Payment of Bonus Act would not be eligible to
get bonus and ex-gratia cash payment in lieu of bonus would
remove the restriction of Rs. 500/- for eligibility for payment of bonus. On 29th January 1963, another settlement was arrived at between ... question of payment of bonus was being reviewed in the light of the Bonus Ordinance dated 25th September, 1975, no bonus should be paid
surplus profit but
this was also voluntary payment to keep labour contented.
Disputes for payment of bonus for the years 1948 and 1949
arose ... question of payment of bonus based on
profits and recommend principles for
computation of such bonus and methods of
payment;
2. to determine what
year ending June 1965
instead of declaring this payment as an ad-
vance against payment of bonus as was being,
done all these years ... paid during any accounting
year Puja Bonus, or other customary bonus or a part of the
bonus payable under the Act before the due date
statutory bonus of 4% of their wages, under the Bonus
Act and production bonus was not admissible. Ex gratia
payment also was ruled ... production bonus scheme and that the
workmen should be paid production bonus in addition to the
bonus payable under the Bonus Act . He further speaks
Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 and that the bonus paid under the said settlements was bonus contemplated under the Payment of Bonus ... puja bonus or other customary bonus, he will be entitled to deduct the amount of bonus so paid from the amount of bonus payable
respondents also accepted that the bonus claim, made by them, was not for profit bonus, production bonus or bonus connected with any festival or celebration ... festival and, as previous payments had not also been at an uniform rate, the question of payment of bonus having become either a customary payment
