Case Law Details
The status of laborers employed by contractors in industries in Maharashtra has again become a point of deep differences among various benches of the Bombay high court and therefore the Supreme Court (SC) last week referred three questions to a larger bench of the apex court for an authoritative decision. The case involved workers of Raymond Ltd in Mumbai. When one of them moved the industrial court under the Maharashtra Recognition of Trade Union and Prevention of Unfair Labor Practices Act, the company denied any relationship with the laborer. Various benches of the high court have taken different stands on the issue of relationship between the employer and such workers. Therefore, the SC framed three questions for the larger bench. The first and main one is “whether a person who is employed by a contractor who undertakes contracts for the execution of any of the whole of the work or any part of the work which is ordinarily work of the undertaking is an employee under the Act?”
Raymond Ltd & another Vs. Tukaram Tanaji Mandhare & another
Supreme Court of India
Bench: M Katju, G S Misra
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