CHAIRMAN TAMIL NADU ELECTRICITY BOARD CHENNAI Vs. WORKMAN TAMIL NADU MINVARIYA DRAVIDAR THOLILALAR SAMMELENAM CHENNAI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) BY consent, the writ petition is taken up for final disposal.

(2.) THIS writ petition is directed against the award of the Industrial Tribunal passed in I.D. No.28 of 2001 dated 26.8.2002 on the file of the second respondent/Industrial Tribunal wherein the petitioners have been directed to provide job assistance to R. Lalitha, W/o O.S. Radhakrishnan on compassionate grounds as "Sweeper" as and when vacancy arises and to quash the same.

(3.) VAIDYANATHAN has further argued that the object of providing employment assistance on compassionate grounds is to provide immediate help to the family which is in penury due to the unforeseen death of the breadwinner of the family and since the wife of the deceased employee was able to lead her life till from 1980, it is clear that the family of the deceased is not in need of employment assistance and since the posts of sweeper have been out sourced by the Board, the Board cannot employ the wife of the deceased employee in the post of Sweeper on compassionate grounds.