Supreme Court of India

Workmen of Bombay Port Trust v. The Trust of the Port of Bombay

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Reported as [1966] 2 S.C.R. 632
Bench P. B. Gajendragadkar, K. N. Wanchoo, M. Hidayatullah, V. Ramaswami and P. Satyanarayana Raju JJ.
Decided 18 November 1965

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Minimum Wages Act (11 of 1948), ss. 13 and 14 and Minimum Wages (Central) Rules, 1950, 7r. 24 and 25-Scope of. The respondent had under its control several docks. The trustees of the respondent introduced a two shift system of work and that re­ sulted in the crew working in some docks getting 4 hours of overtime in some docks 3 hours of overtime and in others 2 hours of overtime only. In the last category the 12 hours shift was divided into 8 hours of work, 2 hours of rest and 2 hours of overtime. The 2 hours period of rest was variable depending on the tides or the exigencies of the work,

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