Supreme Court of India

Jabalpur Bijlighar Karamchari Panchayat v. Jabalpur Electric Supply Co., Ltd. & Anr.

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Reported as [1972] 1 S.C.R. 60
Bench G.K. Mitter J.
Decided 9 August 1971

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What the Court ordered

In the result, the appeal fails both on the point of custo- B mary or festival bonus or Implied term of the contract or profit bonus, and will be dismissed with costs.

Judgment, page 21

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Industrial Law-Bonus-Principles for awarding festival bonus­ Available surplus for distribution-Principles for calculation of. The employees of the respondent claimed bonus on two counts : (I) festival bonus at 10 % of their total earnings as an implied term of the con- tract of employment and as an established practice of payment from 1-940- 41 without any break; and (2) bonus out of the profits quantified at 50% of the said total earnings. The Industrial Tribunal rejected the claims. In appeal to this Court, · HELO : (I) The criteria to be considered when a question of ccs' tomary or

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