Appeal by Special Leave from the Order dated 12 5 1978 of the Second Industrial Tribunal, West Bengal in Case No.
B. Pai, R. C. Shah, S. R. Agarwal, O. P. Khaitan and Praveen Kumar for the appellant.
K. Ramamurthi, and Ramesh C. Pathak for the Intervener The Bank of Tokyo Staff Association .
K. Ramamurthi, D. T. Sen Gupta, S. R. Gupta and P. Chakravorti for Respondent No.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by KRISHNA IYER, J. Industrial jurisprudence, based on the values of social justice which is integral to our Constitution, has been built around several legislations enacted by Parliament, one of which is the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965, the Bonus Act, for short .
The claim of the Union of Workmen is for customary bonus, the reference to industrial adjudication relates to customary bonus, and the special leave to appeal granted by this Court is companyfined to customary bonus as the companymon basis and focuses on the sole legal issue of negation of that kind of bonus by virtue of the provisions of the amending Act 23 of 1976.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.
VIII 169/77 G.O. No.
1118 of 1978.
3000 IR dated 26 7 77.
