LAWS(DLH)-2006-5-207

BHUPAT SINGH Vs. HINDUSTAN TIMES LTD

Decided On May 09, 2006
BHUPAT SINGH Appellant
V/S
HINDUSTAN TIMES LTD Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) In these proceedings under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, a direction has been sought to respondents, to make a proper and suitable reference and also quash the existing reference made on 2.2.2005, by respondents 3 and 4. The petitioners have also sought for an appropriate direction that the exclusion of reference on account of omission of names of 47 workers is unsupported by law

(2.) The three original petitioners are office bearers of the Hindustan Times Employees Union. The said Union was registered in 1994 under the Trade Unions Act. The said Union and the Hindustan Times Limited, the first respondent in these proceedings, had entered into a wage settlement on 22.9.1989. The said parties had also entered into another settlement with regard to terms and conditions of workers of the first respondent, on 24.1.2001 and 12.8.2002. It has claimed that certain decisions were taken in a meeting held between the management of the first respondent and the Hindustan Times Employees Union on 12.8.2002, relating to staff requirement in various departments, overtime payments etc.

(3.) The petitioners rloyees, by appointing them on contract basis thus depriving due wages resulting in weakening of the Union and also violating existing terms and conditions, in Section 9-A of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (hereafter 'the Act').