Supreme Court of India

The Graham Trading Co. (india) Ltd. v. Its Workmen

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Reported as [1960] 1 S.C.R. 107
Bench Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha J.
Decided 7 May 1959

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Industrial, Dispute-Puja Bonus-Customary and traditional payment of-Test. The appellant had been paying puja bonus to its workmen continuously from 1940 to 1952 at the rate of one month's wages. From 1948 to 1952, the appellant whenever it paid this bonus, made it clear that it was ex gratia payment and would not consti­ tute any precedent in future years. The dispute arose regarding the payment of bonus in 1953· The workmen claimed that the sole object of bonus which had been grantecf to them upto that year was to meet puja expenses and that the payment of this bonus had become customary and

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