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PETITIONER: M/s. U. P. ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO., LTD.
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE WORKMEN OF M/s. S. N. CHOUDHARY,CONTRACTORS AND ANOTHER
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 08/03/1960
BENCH: WANCHOO, K.N. BENCH: WANCHOO, K.N. GAJENDRAGADKAR, P.B.
CITATION: 1960 AIR 818 1960 SCR (3) 189
ACT: Industrial Dispute-Tyibunal deciding issue not referred to it--jurisdiction-U.P. Industrial Dispute Act, 1947 (XXVIII Of 1947), ss. 34 (Proviso) 5, 8.
HEADNOTE: The appellant company used to employ Messrs. S. M. Chou- dhary as its contractors for doing certain work for it and the contractors in their turn used to employ some workmen to carry out the work which they took on contract. A dispute having arisen between the contractors and their workmen an application was made before the conciliation board by the workmen in which both the company and the contractors were parties and four matters were referred, namely, non-grant of bonus for two years, non-grant of festival holidays, non- fixation of minimum wages of those workmen at par with the workmen of the company and non-abolition of the contract system. As conciliation failed the Government referred the dispute to the Industrial Tribunal under the U.P. Industrial Disputes Act in which only three points out of the four mentioned above were referred and the question of non- abolition of the contract system was not referred. The parties ...