Supreme Court of India

B. N. Elias and Co., Ltd., Employees' Union and Others v. B. N. Elias & Co., Ltd., and Others.

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Reported as [1960] 3 S.C.R. 382
Bench P.B. Gajendragadkar J.
Decided 24 March 1960

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Industrial Dispute-Bonus-Implied term of agreement or condition of service-Ex gratia payments-Cttstomary bonus- -Pnja bonus. Since 1942 the respondents had been making ex gratia pay­ ments to their employees (appellants) in addition to wages and salaries, bnt these were not regular and in 1956, no ex gratia payments were made at all. The appellants claimed that their right to be paid bonus had become an implied term of agreement or a condition of service and, at any rate, it should be paid as customary bonus, and relied on the case of The Graham Trading Co. (India) Ltd. v. Its Workmen, [1960]

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