Supreme Court of India

Messrs. P.M. Patel & Sons and Others, Etc. v. Union of India and Others, Etc.

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Reported as [1985] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 55
Decided 25 September 1985

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What the Court ordered

We hold that there is no substance in the contention of the petitioners that the provisions of the Employees' Provident Funds Act and the Scheme cannot be applied at all to home workers.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 1952 Section 2(f) - Workers employed at their homes in manufacture of beedis - Whether entitled to benefit of the Act. Relationship of Master and servant - Element of personal service - Of little significance when test of control and supervision enables a right of rejection. The labour employed in the manufacture of beedis consists of different categories. At the factory, which constitutes the formal establishment, there are administrative and cleriCal staff, accountants, packers, checkers and bhattimen, The work of rolling the

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