Employees can’t be forced to work under new management – Supreme Court

Sunil K.R. Ghosh & Ors. Vs. K. Ram Chandran & Ors. (Supreme Court)-  Employees cannot be compelled to work under a new management and are entitled to retirement or retrenchment benefits, the Supreme Court has held. The apex court rejected the argument of Philip’s India Ltd that since the employees had neither retired nor retrenched, hence they were not entitled to the benefits. “It is settled law that without consent, workmen cannot be forced to work under different management and in that event, those workmen are entitled to retirement/retrenchment compensation in terms of the Act...