Supreme Court · 1977 INSC 72 · Decided 1 March 1977
Straw Board MFG. Co LTD. v. The Workmen
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1977 INSC 72 · [1977] 3 S.C.R. 91
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1539/1970
- Decided
- 1 March 1977
- Bench
- V.R. KRISHNA IYER, JASWANT SINGH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Directions issued
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
91 GratHity-Qualifying period of service and calculation of amounts-Tests for determination. Jn an industrial dispute between the appellant mill and its workmen relating 1o the payment of gratuity, the Industrial Tribunal framed a gratuity scheme and gave th~ necessary guidelines for its whether the correct principles on which gratuity should be payable had been followed in this case .or not. Since the making of th:! award, the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 \vas passed, which, by s. 4(5) gave an option to the workers to choose behveen the gratnity scheme under the award and the
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