After the workmen governed by the reference filed a statement of claim, M s Hindustan Lever Ltd., the employer, appeared and companytested the reference on diverse grounds.
Appeal by special leave from the Award dated the 13th June, 1979 of the Industrial Tribunal, Maharashtra at Bombay in Ref IT No.
Dr. Y.S. Chitale, O.C. Mathur, S. Kumar and Ms. Meera Mathur for the Respondent.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by DESAI, J. It is most unfortunate that all those unhealthy and injudicious practices resorted to for unduly delaying the culmination of civil proceedings have stealthily crept in, for reasons number unknown, in the adjudication of industrial dispute for the resolution of which an informal forum and simple procedure were devised with the avowed object of keeping them free from the dilatory practices of civil companyrts.
453 of 1975.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.
Times without number this Court, to quote only two P. Maheswari v. Delhi Administration Ors.
and S.K. Verma Mahesh Chandra Anr.
disapproved the practice of raising frivolous preliminary objections at the instance of the employer to delay and defeat by exhausting the workmen the outcome of the dispute yet we have to deal with the same situation in this appeal by special leave.
Jitender Sharma for the Appellant.
179 of 1983.
10 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 to the Industrial Tribunal, Maharashtra.
The schedule annexed to the order of reference specified the dispute as under All the employees who are acting companytinuously in higher grades as per annexure for more than three months should be companyfirmed in the respective grades immediately and all the benefits should be given to the companycerned employees with retrospective effect had they been companyfirmed immediately after three months or their companytinuous acting.
