Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 341 · Decided 12 May 2006
North Eastern Karnataka R.T. Corporation v. Ashappa and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 341 · [2006] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 708
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2637/2006
- Decided
- 12 May 2006
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, P.K. BALASUBRAMANYAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Industrial Disputes Act
Headnote
Labour Laws : Industrial Disputes Act, 1947: Employee-Unauthorised absence ji-om duty-Misconduct-Dismissal ji-om service-Industrial dispute-Labour Court directing the employer to reinstate him to original post and also for payment of back wages­ Challenge to-Dismissed by High Court-On appeal, report for duties-He was also found unauthorisedly absent from duty on several occasions earlier­ Absence of an employee from duty for a long time cannot be treated as minor misconsduct-The misconduct committed by the employee could not be treated lightly-Hence, the impugned order cannot be
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