Supreme Court · 1979 INSC 168 · Decided 4 September 1979
Management of Shri Chalthan Vibhag Khan Udyog Sahakari Mandali LTD. Etc . v. B. S. Barot Member, Industrial Court, Gujarat, and ANR. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1979 INSC 168 · [1980] 1 S.C.R. 509
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 146/1978
- Decided
- 4 September 1979
- Bench
- S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI, P.S. KAILASAM, A.P. SEN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
LAbour law-Dearnes.s allowance to workers-Its nature-If could be given at 125% of incroose in the. cost of living-Depreciation, if should be a fir!t charg~ in arriving at .the capacity of the industry to pay wages. The respondent workmen who were in the State of Gujarat demanded grant of dearness allowance, among certain other benefits, <Jn the basis of revised scales for sugar factories in Uttar Pradesh. The Indus­ trial Court, Gujarat increased the dearness allowance on a graded scale spread over three years. B c On appeal
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