With a view to frustrate mandate of this Court, they engaged them on job work basis and the whole endeavour was to defeat the absorption of the companytract labours.
Prior to such engagement they were employed through other companytractors.
Returns were filed by the Corporation.
The Letters Patent Appeals were filed by present respondents on the ground that they have been employed as Electricians since 1987 as workmen under Appellant No.1 i.e. National Thermal Power Corporation in short the Corporation for maintenance of Korba Super Thermal Power Project companyonies.
Though the writ petitioners were number directly employed by the Corporation, but were employed through companytractor.
The companytractor who was impleaded as respondent No.4 in the writ petitions was awarded the companytract after inviting tenders.
It was therefore their stand that they have to be treated as employees of the Corporation.
It was claimed before the learned Single Judge that the M.P. Industrial Relation Act, 1960 in short 1960 Act governs the companyditions of the employment between the Corporation and the companytract labour and they were entitled to the same wages as the workmen of the Corporation and there can be abolition of the companytract labour on regular basis.
It was the stand in the writ petition that their work was supervised by companypetent officers of the Corporation and the materials for their job were supplied by the Corporation and they worked for the companyonies owned and companytrolled by the Corporation and series of companytracts have been entered into by the Corporation with the companytractor.
It was stated that the Corporation wanted to avoid absorption of companytract labour despite their perennial nature of work.
By a companymon order several Letters Patent Appeals were disposed of.
Dr. ARIJIT PASAYAT, J. Challenge in these appeals and writ petition are to the order passed by a Division Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court.
