Supreme Court of India
Messrs. P.M. Patel & Sons and Others, Etc. v. Union of India and Others, Etc.
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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
Where later benches applied it
- 2019 The Officer in Charge, Sub-regional Provident Fund Office & Anr. v. M/s Godavari Garments Limited
- 2020 Sushilaben Indravadan Gandhi & Anr. v. The New India Assurance Company Limited & Ors.
- 2020 M/s. Pawan Hans Limited & Ors. v. Aviation Karmachari Sanghatana & Ors.
Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to
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