Supreme Court of India
M/s.whirlpool of India Ltd. v. Employees' State Insurance Corporation
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What the Court ordered
For the aforesaid reasons, we allow the appeal and set aside the judgment of the High Court and restore that of Employees' Insurance Court.
Judgment, page 6
From the headnote
Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948: Sections 2(22), 3, 26, 46 and 75. Wages-Scope of-Company- 'Production Incentive Scheme '-Payments made quarterly to workers towards production incentive-Held, not covered by the definition of 'wages' -Demand for contribution towards Employees' State Insurance Fund in respect of quarterly payments made towards produc- tion incentive-Held not permissible. The appellant company was paying to its workers production incen tive, under a 'Production Incentive Scheme', in addition to normal wages. Treating the said payment as 'wages', the respondent-corporation
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Where later benches applied it
- 2021 The Employees State Insurance Corporation v. M/s Texmo Industries
- 2017 Employees State Insurance Corporation & Anr. v. Mangalam Publications (i) Private Limited
Of those, 2 referred to
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