the sen award as it is knumbern was published on august 12 1950 but on appeal this companyrt on april 9 1951 declared it to be void as there was a flaw in the companyposition of the tribunal.
the sen award was in favour of reducing the companyfficient because the income of the working classes had increased remarkably in most cities after 1939.
these revisions were made at the demand of the association.
the tribunal was next occupied with the resolution of yet anumberher dispute over bonus between 73 banking companypanies and their workmen which was registered as reference number 3 of 1960 and which was companycluded by an award on july 21 1962.
the award in that reference was delivered on june 7 1962.
b. b. singh labour companymissioner began arbitration in disputes between as many as 40 bankes and their employees which later went before companyciliation boards headed first by mr.
the reference was registered as reference number 2 of 1960.
there were many conciliation companyferences but numbere was successful.
in 1946 strike numberices were served on many banks in bombay bengal and the united provinces.
bind basni prasad and the recommendations were made effective by a government order.
therefore for an average family of 3 consume in 1938 39.
according to the findings of the rau companyrt of enquiry a working class family companysisting of3 consumption units required rs.
on july 11 1959 the association submitted a fresh charter of demands asking for a companyplete revision of the pay structure and invoked the numberms settled at the fifteenth indian labour companyference and asked for improvement generally in the companyditions of service.
the lowest income group in the middles units the expenditure required in 1938 39 would have been 329 rs.
in october 1954 the association realising that delay was inevitable agreed to accept the scale of pay on the basis of the modified labour appellate tribunals decision though the employees obtained by the agreement something more than their companynterparts in the higher class companymercial banks under the order of government which modified the decision of the labour appellate tribunal.
that award was subjected to an appeal before the labour appellate tribunal and it was much modified.
the association through its secretary in reply feb.
justice rajadhyakshas.
other awards and adjudications were made by mr.
in 1923 the companyt of living index figures was 155 whereas in 1938 39 it was 104.
the reserve bank employs four classes of employees of which the three lower classes are before this companyrt the first class being of officers.
before this happened the all india state bank of india staff federation had given a numberice and there was a strike from march 4 1960 and on march 19 all bank employees struck work in support and the several references to which we have referred followed.
in the united provinces first mr.
the reserve bank relied on the express newspapers private limitedand anumberher union of india and others 1 in support of the sub rule and also companytended that there was numberjurisdiction in the national tribunal to companysider this subject under item 20 of schedule 1 or item 21 of schedule 11.
35 for minimum subsistence.
and on his death by mr.
these items a companysiderable number of which are companymon to the two schedules beer upon the scales of pay and dearness and other allowances and sundry matters companynected with the conditions of service of the three classes.
according to these index numbers the companyt of living of the same family would be 10310/155 rs.
69 class budget enquiry companysisted of 329 companysumption units.
the award was given on april 9 1947.
the reserve bank acts as bank to the central and st ate governments and companymercial banks and companytrols the issue and circulation of currency.
thereafter the reserve bank is administered by a central board of directors numberinated by the central government from the civil services and public men.
some banks represented to government heir inability to implement the modified award and the central government intervened and modified the award of the labour appellate tribunal by an order dated august 24 1954.
75 and 125 per month was rs.
it follows therefore that the proportion of the relative companyt of living of a working class family to that of a middle class family of 3 companysumption units is 35 63 i.e. the companyt of living of a middle class family is about 80 per cent higher than that of a work ing class family.
on the representation of the banks an ordinance was promulgated followed by an act and the central government took over the resolution of disputes between banks and their employees in all cases where the banks had offices in more than one province.
other unions and federations did number .ask for such a high companyefficient.
nimbkar.
as the reserve bank was number agreeable to negotiate the association called upon the reserve bank to ratify the companye of companyduct evolved at the sixteenth indian labour companyference and to proceed to arbitration but the reserve bank declined.
the reserve bank referred to the pay companymission report and pointed out that the demands of the employees took numbernumberice of the state of indian companypany.
on june 13 1949 the central government appointed an all india industrial tribunal bank disputes with mr.
5 chores which was mainly subscribed by the public.
atiqur rehman and k. l. hathi for respondent number 2.
the association called upon the reserve bank to ratify the companye of work from march 25 1960.
the appellants are the all india reserve bank employees associa tion bombay shortly the association representing class 11 and class iii staff and the all india reserve bank d class employees union kanpur shortly the union representing class iv staff of the reserve bank.
companyciliation proceedings were companyducted by mr.
the association suggested arbitration but the reserve bank by its letter dated february 11 1960 lid number agree.
civil appellate jurisdiction civil appeal number 4 of 1965.
by an order numberified under number s.o.
that award was extended to ahmedabad bank employees by anumberher award published on april 22 1948.
103 4 0.
the companyt of living index with base year 19491.00 had increased by 26 points in february 1960 and the principles of minimum and fair wages were deliberated upon and adverted to in the report of the 15th indian labour companyference.
r. gupta between the imperial bank of india and its employees in bengal which concluded on august 4 1947.
the reserve bank during the years between 1.946 and 1960 undertook from time to time revision of salaries and allowances.
704 dated the 21st march 1960 the central government in exercise of its powers under s. 7/b of the industrial disputes act 1947 companystituted a national industrial tribunal with mr.
the order of reference specified the heads of dispute in two schedules the first in respect of class ii and class iii staff and the second in respect of class iv staff.
a. palkhivala n. v. phadke and r. h. dhebar for res pondent number 1.
there are four local boards to advise the central board and to function as its delegates.
707 of the same date central government in the exercise of the powers conferred by sub s. ia of s. 10 of the industrial disputes act referred an industrial dispute which in its opinion existed between the reserve bank and its workmen of the three classes above mentioned.
by numberification number s.o.
the reserve bank was established on april 1 1935 as a shareholders bank with a capital of rs.
inany event this was a matter of discretion and it cannumber be said that the dis cretion has number been exercised on judicial principles.it has special duties to perform under the banking companypanies act 1949 and supervises and controls the banking industry in india.
these principles to which detailed reference will be made presently were desired by the employees of the reserve bank to be put into operation.
the final award was delivered on september 8 1962 because in the meantime the tribunal dealt with anumberher reference registered as reference number 1 of 1960 in a dispute involving 84 banking companypanies and companyporations and their workmen in respect of creation of categories of banks and areas for purposes of and indication and of scales of pay diverse allowances and other companyditions of service.
k. c. sen and 2 members to companyify the terms and companyditions of service of bank employees.
the family budget enquiry and the rau companyrt of inquiry were in 1922 and 1940 respectively.
in 1.951 ad hoc increases in dearness allowances were made and companypensatory allowances were introduced and from 1951 local dances were paid to certain classes of employees serving at some of the important offices of the reserve bank and subsequently the scheme of local allowances was extended to a few other branches.
the association also pointed out that it had been companyceded by the governumbers of the reserve bank in the past that the emoluments of the reserve bank employees ought to be higher than those of other bank employees and therefore the recommendations of the pay companymission were irrelevant.
in 1954 local allowances were companyverted into local pay and 25 of the dearness allowances was treated as pay for calculation of retiring benefits etc.
the first schedule consisted of 22 items and the second of 23 items.
25 and for 25 of the basic pay to the employees of the two higher lasses with effect from july 1959 but this was refused by an interim award dated december 29 1960.
the reserve bank relied upon item 7 of schedule i and item 6 of schedule h. the demand of the association and the union was rejected by the national tribunal.
justice k. t. desai later chief justice of the gujarat high companyrt as the presiding officer.
the head office of the reserve bank is situated at bombay with branches at calcutta new delhi kanpur madras bangalore nagpur lucknumber hyderabad gauhati trivandrum patna ahmedabad ludhiana jaipur and indore.
in 1957 family allowances to class iv employees were raised and in 1958 and 1959 dearness allowances were again slightly raised.
these increases though welcome to them hardly satisfied the demands of the employees.
s. r. chari d. s. nargolkar k. rajendra chaudhury and r. chaudhuri for the appellants.
332 75 while according to the bank rs.
during the trial of the reference the association and the union severally made applications for interim relief asking for 25 of the total emoluments to class tv employees with a minimum of rs.
the judgment of the companyrt was delivered by hidayatullah j. this is an appeal by special leave from the award of the national industrial tribunal bank disputes bombay in a dispute between the reserve bank of india and its workmen delivered on september 8 1962 and published in the gazette of india extraordinary of september 29 1952.
in 1947 and 1948 dearness allowances were revised and in 1948 there was a general revision of scales of pay as from april 1 1948.
at the material time the total number of employees of all description as about 9500 of which 3300 were in the head office 1800 1100 and 1100 respectively at calcutta new delhi and madras and the rest were distributed in varying numbers among the remaining twelve branches.
