Supreme Court · 1990 INSC 254 · Decided 24 August 1990
State Bank of India v. Workmen of State Bank of India and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1990 INSC 254 · [1990] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 11
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4381/1990
- Decided
- 24 August 1990
- Bench
- P.B. SAWANT, K. RAMASWAMY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Industrial Disputes Act Section 2(oo), 25F
Headnote
Industrial Disputes Act, 1947: Sections 2(oo) and 25F-Bank clerk-Charged with misconduct-Issued notice and enquiry held­ Para 52I(IO)(a) Shastri Award-Discharged on payment of one month's pay in lieu of notice-Held discharge-Punitive in character­ Not amounting to 'retrenchment'. All India discharge a11d dis­ charge simpliciter-Distinction between-Predominant object of the Award-To protect employees. The appellant Bank instituted a departmental inquiry against one of its employees, a clerk in one of its branches. The departmental t inquiry was held for four acts of
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