functions and the said decision is not an authority
that a Pilot is a workman. Further in the present case the three
Pilots/workmen were ... Pilots/workmen Manjit Singh, Pritam Singh
and N.D. Kathuria states that the stand of the Management that the
Pilots/workmen were not workmen
captain of a ship and he should not be regarded as a "workman".
11. A pilots main duty is to drive an aircraft ... bringing into force the operation Manual, a pilot including a Senior Commander ceases to be a workmen considering the contention of the management, based
into insignificance.
40. Jurisprudentially, the question of whether a pilot is, or is not, a
"workman" has been answered, in the affirmative ... Captain
Manjit Singh , (2013) 198 DLT 749, that a pilot of an aircraft was a
"workman", within the meaning
alleged irregular appointment of
the petitioner.
(iii) Petitioner as a Pilot is not a workman under the Industrial Disputes
Act, 1947 and therefore impugned order ... judgment passed way back on
10.2.1977 which states that a Pilot is a workman under the Industrial Disputes
Act, 1947 . This judgment
duties of the Pilot in Command/CoPilot.
27. It has been submitted on behalf of the workman that in the Pilot
Employment Agreement ... only a copilot
and not a captain.
As discussed above, the workman was not entitled to wages at the
rate the workman has claimed
a person
is a workman is a fact-based determination dependent on the actual
duties performed, and that the duties discharged by a pilot would ... characteristics. Admittedly, job of a pilot may be a
skilled one but even then it is a job of a workman, which is his
principal
Governor, Delhi ) at its page 9 to establish that a Pilot Is a "workman" under section ... held therein that a Pilot is a "workman" and whatever supervisory or administrative work he does it is only Incidental to his work
Basni Prasad The question decided therein included a question whether a pilot of an aircraft was a workman or not. It was observed as follows ... A pilot's main duty is to drive an aircraft. He performs a highly skilled technical work...The main work of a chief pilot
preferred. Learned counsel for
the appellant submitted that Pilot is held to be a workman within the
meaning of Section ... Governor, Delhi 1978
(36) FLR 7 held that Pilot is a workman within the meaning of Section 2(s)
of the I.D. Act. This
noted that the
Pilots/workmen herein had specifically prayed for
an interest, however no interest has been awarded.
A perusal ... order sheets of the Tribunal shows
that the Pilots/workmen have faced a protracted
litigation wherein several times adjournments
were sought by the management
