Supreme Court of India

Chairman and Managing Director,the Fertilizers and Chemicals Tranvancore Ltd. & Anr. v. General Secretary Fact Employees Association & Ors.

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Bench Abhay Manohar Sapre and Indu Malhotra JJ.
Decided 11 April 2019

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the references made to the Labour Court by the State were without jurisdiction, it is not necessary to examine the merits of the case.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 – s.11 – Res judicata – Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 – s.10 – Central Government directed Appellant No.1-PSU to reduce the retirement age of pre-1978 employees from 60 years to 58 years – Respondents-Trade Unions filed writ petition against the direction – Single Judge of the High Court dismissed the writ petition – In intra-Court appeal, the Division Bench of the High Court affirmed the order of the Single Judge of the High Court – Aggrieved, Trade unions filed special leave petitions in the Supreme Court, which were dismissed – Thereafter, State Government…

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