Supreme Court · 1979 INSC 79 · Decided 11 April 1979
Hukum Chand Jute Mills LTD. v. Second Industrial Tribunal, West Bengal & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1979 INSC 79 · [1979] 3 S.C.R. 644
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1118/1978
- Decided
- 11 April 1979
- Bench
- V.R. KRISHNA IYER, V.D. TULZAPURKAR, R.S. PATHAK (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
Payment of BonuJ A.ct, 1965-Customary and contractual bonus-If excluded by the Act>-A.mending A.ct 23 of 1976-Efject of. The appellant mills had been paying customary bonus to its employees for a number of years. Consequent to the amendment of the Bonus Act, 1965 in 1976 by Act 23 of 1976 the bonus claimed by the workmen, whereupon the dispute regarding "customary bonus for the year 1976" was referred by the State Government to the Industrial Tribunal. The Management's plea that customary bonus was no longer payable, in view of tho provisions of the 1976 Amendment, WM
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