Appeal by special leave from the award dated December 11, 1959, of the Industrial Tribunal, Assam at Gauhati in Reference No.
Having thus found that the lay off was justified, the Tribunal proceeded to examine the question as to whether the trade reasons on which the respondent relied had been proved.
It is this award which has given rise to the present appeal by the appellants.
The case for the respondent was that the tea estates in question which are all situated in Cachar District had to face a long period of depression in trade by reason of the poor prices generally companymanded by the tea produced by them.
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It appears that the appellants raised a dispute against the respondent in regard to the lay off declared by them in the estates in question in February, 1959.
7 of 1959.
390 of 1963.
B. Agarwal, J.N. Hazarika and K.P. Gupta, for the appellants.
It is companymon ground that these 11 tea estates are run by nine Companies and M s. Macneill and Barry Ltd. are the Managing Agents of all these companypanies.
The 11 tea estates which are companycerned with this dispute were described in Appendix A to the order of reference.
Sankar Bannerjee, P.K. Chatterjee, D.N. Gupta and B.N.Ghosh, for the respondents.
The said ay off lasted for 45 days and the appellants companytention was that the lay off was number justified, and so, they were entitled to their full wages for the period of the lay off.
November 25, 1963.
The judgment of the Court was delivered by GAJENDRAGADKAR, J. This appeal by special leave arises from an industrial dispute between the respondent, the Management of 11 Tea Estates and the appellants, their workmen.
