complainant workmen and the 42 new complainant workmen, inter alia, on the ground that the Company had continued to recruit seven months temporary workmen ... workmen were not challenged.
18. The Industrial Court, Pune, thereafter recorded evidence in the main complaints pending before it. The workmen examined three workmen Gajanan
employing about 3000 number of workmen) throughout the State of Maharashtra is having majority of the workmen as temporary workmen. The Union further points ... perennial workmen and not with seasonal workmen. The Union knew that even among the perennial workmen there were some permanent and others temporary and they
work or field season begins, the
ONGC starts recruiting casual/contingent/temporary
workmen for specified periods and their service are
terminated ... members who had been recruited as
such casual/contingent/temporary workmen, raised an
industrial dispute in the form of a demand for regularization
of such
were given better service conditions. Since these workmen were retained as temporary workmen for more than two years, the petitioner-Union wrote to the Management ... majority of the 900 workmen in the factory. The Management has employed about 950 workmen made up of permanent, temporary and casual employees, the last
regular work force, it also engages a large number of temporary workmen, who are employed and re-employed by issuing orders of appointments from time ... would have been necessary for the workmen to establish that upon discharge of workman of one category, another workman of the same category was engaged
workmen of the management are members of the petitioner-union. The total strength of the workmen of the management consisted of permanent, temporary and about ... been made temporary since the Government of India was insisting that the management should reduce its production level, the temporary workmen could not be made
regulate recruitment, but regularisation of employees on what is known as Casual Temporary Establishment and their subsequent regularisation on the regular establishment.
16. That takes ... whether the complainants before the Industrial Court satisfy that they were workmen within the meaning of Section
workmen. Over and above this, the petitioner also used to engage temporary workmen out of a pool of 100 temporary workmen depending upon the exigencies ... work. The employment of temporary workmen was only for specific periods and at the end of each such period, their employment would automatically come
were issued to the workmen. They were directed to work as
temporary workmen and were deployed on various projects.
3. On 16th October ... submitted that the
workmen in the present complaints were not temporary workmen as
understood in common parlance but were project workers. They
were employed
workmen was arrived at because, 74 workmen had not responded to the call of the ONGC to come for work and six workmen had already ... whether the present workmen can be included in such workmen?
(ii) Whether the present reference should be restricted to above workmen who are members
