UNION OF INDIA Vs. CENTRAL GOVERMENT INDUSTRIES TRIBUNAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) this writ application is at the instance of an employer and is directed against an award dated november 15, 1999 passed by the central government industrial tribunal at calcutta in reference no. 6 of 1998. The following disputes were referred to the tribunal:

(2.) the tribunal, by the award impugned herein, answered the disputes in favour of the employees thereby directing the management to regularise the services of the concerned workmen with effect from the date of granting them the grade and scale of pay in 1987. The management was further directed to grant all benefits available to the regular workers working in the same post in the establishment from the date of regularisation of service. As out of 540 concerned workmen, some had retired and some had died, the award further ordained that all benefits arising out of such regularisation should be available to them or their successors, as the case might be.

(3.) the union filed written statement before the tribunal thereby taking the following defences: