Appeal by Special Leave from the Award dated 14 7 71 of the Industrial Tribunal Maharashtra Bombay in Reference T. No.
If so, what should be the basis on which employers should make payment of bonus to their workmen for the years ending on any date in 1966, 1967 1968 and 1969 ?
B. Pai, Shri Narain, O. C. Mathur and J. B. Dandachanji for Respondent Nos.
Whether payment of bonus by the employers to their workmen has become custom or usage or companydition of service in these establishments ?
27, 68, 160, 182, 226, 265, 312, 403, 522, 722 and 903.
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The Deputy Commissioner of Labour mediated but since his intervention did number melt the hardened mood of the employers, formal demands for payments of bonus were made by the Union and government was persuaded to refer the dispute for adjudication to an Industrial Tribunal.
M. Tarkunde, P. H. Parekh, H. K. Sowani and Manju Jetley for the Appellant.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by KRISHNA IYER, J. A narration of the skeletal facts, sufficient to get a hang of the four legal issues debated at the bar in this appeal, by special leave, will help direct the discussion along a disciplined companyrse, although the broader social arguments addressed have spilled over the banks of the jural stream.
And at what rate ?
Following upon the statements of parties, the Tribunal framed two issues which ran thus Whether Award of the Arbitration Board made in Reference VA No.
61 of 1971.
The Tribunal formulated two issues as arising from the statements of the parties and rendered his award dismissing the reference.
116 of 1970.
