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PETITIONER: THE NEW MANECK CHOWK SPINNING AND WEAVING CO., LTD.,
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE TEXTILE LABOUR ASSOCIATION,AHMEDABAD
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 07/12/1960
BENCH: WANCHOO, K.N. BENCH: WANCHOO, K.N. GAJENDRAGADKAR, P.B. SARKAR, A.K. SUBBARAO, K. MUDHOLKAR, J.R.
CITATION: 1961 AIR 867 1961 SCR (3) 1 CITATOR INFO : R 1961 SC 977 (7) RF 1967 SC 691 (22,64) R 1967 SC1450 (5) RF 1972 SC1234 (19) RF 1972 SC1436 (12) RF 1972 SC2148 (22) RF 1986 SC1486 (5)
ACT: Industrial Dispute-Profit bonus-Agreement between Labour and Mill-owners-Full Bench Formula, whether contravened by Agreement-Tribunal’s competence to extend Agreement.
HEADNOTE: The respondent, the Textile Labour Association at Ahmedabad, entered into a five years pact with the Ahmedabad Mill- Owners’ Association, representing the member mills, in regard to payment of bonus to the employees of the mills for the years 1953-57. The Labour Union demanded bonus for the year 1958 on the basis of the pact, but the mill-owners claimed that the pact was contrary to the formula evolved by the Full Bench in Mill Owners’ Association, Bombay v. The Rashtriya Mill Mazdoor Sangh, Bombay, [1950] 2 L.L.J. 247, which was approved by the Supreme Court in The Associated Cement Companies Ltd. v. Its Workmen, [1959] S.C.R. 925, inasmuch as (1...