Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1466 · Decided 17 December 2008
C. Balchandran and ORS. v. State of Kerela and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1466 · [2008] 17 S.C.R. 960
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7351/2008
- Decided
- 17 December 2008
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, CYRIAC JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 16
Headnote
Labour Laws - Re-instatement/regularization - Termination of daily wagers on completion of project- Claim c of, re-instatement and regularization - On basis of Supreme Court decision in Jacob's case - Rejected by High Court since workers not in service on date of decision in Jacob's case - On as per the constitutional scheme of equality - Employees were D terminated in 1987 and they did not challenge the termination order _:_ Only after the decision in Jacobs case in 1991 they filed representations which were rejected - More so in Jacob's case, cases of daily wagers not considered -
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