Supreme Court · 1965 INSC 75 · Decided 22 March 1965

Employers in Relation to Digwadih Colliery v. Their Workmen

Court
Supreme Court of India
Citation
1965 INSC 75 · [1965] 3 S.C.R. 448
Case number
CIVIL APPEAL No. 43/1964
Decided
22 March 1965
Bench
P.B. GAJENDRAGADKAR, K.N. WANCHOO, M. HIDAYATULLAH, V. RAMASWAMI (4-judge bench)
Outcome
Dismissed
Case type
Civil
Acts & sections cited
Industrial Disputes Act Section 25F

Headnote

Ind.w;trial Disputes Act (14 of 1947), ss. 25B and 25F-Continuous servi'ce, meaning of. A bad!i workman· worked as the appellant's employee for more than 240 days, with interruptions in each of the calendar years 1959 and 1960. He was retrenched in 1961. An industrial dispute having arisen, that the appellant was not justified in terminating the services of the workman as the provisions of s. 25F of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 were not com- plied with. Tn its appeal to this Court, the appellant contended that the section could a.pply only if the workman had put in 240

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