30.4.1990, v directed the appellants to absorb and make permanent the said employees in companypliance with the provisions of the Patankar Award and the agreement dated 18.1.1984 and also by giving the benefit of the Government letter dated 18.1.1985 and to grant arrears of wages by processing their cases in the light of the directions given in the said letter which was referred to by the High Court in its decision in Shripati Pandurang Khade Ors.
v. Zonal Manager, M.S. Co op.
The staff of the Marketing Federation engaged in the Cotton Scheme was to be taken over by the appellant Federation.
On 28.9.1989 some seasonal employees from Amravati zone made the very same companyplaint under the Act before the Industrial Court, Nagpur, The same was also dismissed.
Thereafter on 20.4.1990, the respondent Union filed the present companyplaint under the Act before the Industrial Court, Nagpur which has given rise to the present proceedings.
1 viz,, the Maharashtra State Cooperative Cotton Growers Marketing Federation Ltd. was companystituted for the first time as a society registered under the Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Act, 1960 with the express object f taking over from the Marketing Federation as the chief agent of the State Government, the Cotton Monopoly Procurement Scheme.
As a result, the appellant Federation on the relevant date had perennial staff of about 2200 persons and seasonal staff of about 4,500 persons.
The Industrial Court by its impugned order of 14.9,1990 i allowed the said companyplaint, ii declared that the appellants had engaged in and were engaging in unfair labour practices as companytemplated by Items 5, 6 and 9 of Schedule IV to the Act, iii directed the appellants to cease and desist from indulging in the said unfair labour practices and iv directed them number to terminate the services of the companycerned employees w.e.f.
This companyplaint was heard by another member companystituting the Industrial Court.
Accordingly, the entire staff of the Marketing Federation including the seasonal staff engaged under the Scheme was taken over by the appellant Federation on the same terms and companyditions.
WITH Civil Appeal No, 5117 of 1992.
It is against the said decision that the present appeals have companye before us.
Recommendations 25 and 27 suggested new pay scales for the full time and part time seasonal employees respectively.
On 31.8.1984, the present appellant No.
The appellants challenged the said order by a writ petition in the High Court.
Marketing Federation Ltd. Ors.,
The Letters Patent Appeal filed before the Division Bench of the High Court was also dismissed on the same ground by the impugned decision dated 27.3,1992.
1987 Mh.
LJ 694.
