SUPRINTENDENT TANSI LEATHER WORKS MADRAS Vs. G GOWRI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Both the writ appeals and the two petitions raise a common question of law and with the consent of parties, they have been heared together and are being disposed of by a common judgment.

(2.) The short facts necessary for disposal of both the appeals only need be stated.

(3.) By a notice, dated 28th December, 1971, the Superintendent, Tansi Leather Works, informed the fifteen workmen named therein that the Management had decided to lay off the 15 workers named therein out of 23 workers. The relevant portion of the notice reads as follows :