LAWS(DLH)-2020-12-61

UNION BANK OF INDIA Vs. MUJAHID QASIM

Decided On December 04, 2020
UNION BANK OF INDIA Appellant
V/S
Mujahid Qasim Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The judgment is pronounced through video-conferencing.

(2.) All these petitions raise a common question - whether drivers, who were serving various Executives in the erstwhile Corporation Bank, which is now merged with the Union Bank of India (hereinafter, 'Petitioner/Bank'), are employees of the Bank. And if so, whether they are entitled to regularization. The Petitioner has filed these petitions challenging two sets of orders.

(3.) In W.P(C) 3296/2018, the challenge is to the industrial award dated 29th November, 2017 passed by Central Government Industrial Tribunal ("CGIT") in ID No. 1/2014, wherein it was held that all the drivers/claimants are 'Workmen' and that there is an employer-employee relationship between the Bank and them. Accordingly, the Tribunal held that the demand of the drivers for regularization of their service was both legal and valid and had directed regularization of all these drivers.