MANAGEMENT OF KEMPF LTD. Vs. LABOUR COURT,COIMBATORE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PER M. Jaichandren, J: - 1. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the respondents.

(2.) THIS writ petition has been filed to call for and quash the common award, dated 10.3.2011, passed by the first respondent Labour Court, insofar as it relates to the direction issued by the said Court to pay the closure compensation, bonus, leave wages and gratuity, with simple interest, at the rate of 12% per annum, from 25.6.1991 till the date of the payment of the amounts due to the employees, who were the petitioners in the Industrial Disputes, on the file of the first respondent Labour Court.

(3.) IT has been stated that a number of Industrial Disputes had been raised by the petitioners therein, before the first respondent Labour Court, stating that they had been retrenched from service by the petitioner company, by way of retrenchment proceedings, initiated pursuant to the orders, dated 17.6.1991, issued by the Management of the petitioner company and for directing the said Management to reinstate them in service, with continuity of service, along with the backwages and other attendant benefits due to them.