Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 833 · Decided 13 December 2013
Management of Sundaram Industries LTD. v. Sundaram Industries Employees Union
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 833 · [2013] 16 S.C.R. 1090
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 11016/2013
- Decided
- 13 December 2013
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, VIKRAMAJIT SEN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC; Constitution Article 226, 136; Industrial Disputes Act
Headnote
Labour Li::lvv - Misconduct - Punishment - Proportionality - Appellant-Company engaged in manufacture of rubber C products - Issuance of fresh instructions by management of appellant-Company requiring the workmen (working as moulders to operate the rubber moulding machines) to their production on the electronic weighing scale instead of placing them on the floor at the end of the shift as D they were doing till that time - The workmen considered this responsibility to be involving not only additional work in carrying the production bag to the weighing machine but also
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