Supreme Court of India

Mr.c.gupta v. Glaxosmithklin Pharmaceutical Limited

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Reported as [2007] 7 S.C.R. 800

Bench Dr. Arijit Pasaya T and Lokeshwar Singh Pant A JJ.

Decided 25 May 2007

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What the Court ordered

We hold that supervisory work done by a technical man is not employment to do technical work, it would result in only manual work being held to be technical work, is not at all conect.

Judgment, page 13

From the headnote

Industrial Disputes Act, 1947-Section 2(s): ) c Industrial Relations Executive-Performing functions of advising management preparing draft enquiry report, conducting domestic enquiries, tendering of, legal advise; holding conferences with employer's advocates and having conditions of service different than those provided for workers of employer-Held: He was not a workman as duties undertaken by him were not technical in nature but overwhelmingly fell in managerial cadre. ...... (Amendment) AC!, 1984 introducing 'operational' work and making 'skilled' and 'unskilled' independent categories,

Authorities it was built on

2001 Hussan Mithu Mhasvadkar v. Bombay Iron and Steel Labour Board and Anr. cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2024 M/s Bharti Airtel Limited v. A.S. Raghavendra referred to
2021 New Okhla Industrial Development Authority & Anr. v. B D Singhal & Ors. referred to
2018 Gottumukkala Venkata Krishamraju v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2015 S.E.B.I. v. Alliance Finstock Ltd. & Ors. Etc. Etc. referred to
2022 Vijay Madanlal Choudhary & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. not applicable

Of those, 4 referred to · 1 not applicable

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