Supreme Court · 1968 INSC 218 · Decided 3 September 1968
Management of Churakulam Tea Estate (P) LTD. v. The Workmen & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1968 INSC 218 · [1969] 1 S.C.R. 931
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 552/1966
- Decided
- 3 September 1968
- Bench
- J.M. SHELAT, VISHISHTHA BHARGAVA, C.A. VAIDYIALINGAM (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
c D E F G H Industrial Dispute-Bonus paid for past number of years, neither at a uniform rate nor connected with any festival-Clai111 as implied con­ dition of service-Whether sustainable--Strike protesting against the management's boycotting conference, whether justified-Lay off b,v ju~tified. FQr the past number of years the appellant management, had paid bonus to its workmen-respondents at different rates. In respect of the years 1957, 1958 and 1959, !'here was a setl!ement between the manage­ ments of various similar industries. and their workmen relating to pay~ ment
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