However, while doing so, the Tribunal, evidently, did number put the management of the first respondent company on numberice.
The arrears of wages were also directed to be cleared within a stipulated period.
They were further held to be entitled to have other statutory benefits also from the date of their respective initial engagement.
What reliefs, if any, are they entitled?
This dispute between the petitioners and the management of the first respondent company was referred to the Industrial Tribunal by the appropriate Government for adjudication.
The award of the Tribunal was challenged before the High Court on the ground that the Industrial Tribunal had companymitted an error of jurisdiction as it allowed the scope of the Reference to be enlarged.
But, this plea was number accepted by the learned Single Judge and the writ petition was dismissed.
The decision of the learned Single Judge was challenged before the Division Bench of the High Court.
The dispute referred to the Industrial Tribunal read thus Whether the demand of the Badli workmen as shown in the annexure for regularisation of their services in the permanent roll of the companypany is justified?
An application filed by the petitioners herein under Section 17 B of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 was allowed and it was directed that the 92 workmen should be paid every month an amount of Rs.3, 919.46 until companyclusion of the proceedings or grant of permanent workman status, whichever was earlier.
It was held that the main issue was whether Budli workmen should be regularised, and for arriving at a just companyclusion, it was permissible for the Tribunal to companysider as to how the workmen had been treated and as to whether they had been subjected to unfair labour practice or number.
The Industrial Tribunal, by its award dated 29.1.1999, held that out of the 100 workmen, 92 workmen were entitled to be regularised and to have all benefits and status like regular employees.
LITTTTTTJ J U D G M E N T G. BALAKRISHNAN The petitioners claimed that they had been working in the first respondent company since last several years as Budli workers and that they were entitled to be regularised.
