Supreme Court of India

Chairman and Managing Director,the Fertilizers and Chemicals Tranvancore Ltd. & Anr. v. General Secretary Fact Employees Association & Ors.

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Reported as [2019] 5 S.C.R. 740
Bench Abhay Manohar Sapre and Indu Malhotra JJ.
Decided 11 April 2019

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the references made to the Labour Cour t by the State were without jurisdiction, it is not necessary to examine the merits of the case.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 – s.11 – Res judicata – Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 – s.10 – Central Government dir ected Appellant No.1-PSU to reduce the retirement age of pre-1978 employees from 60 years to 58 years – Respondents-Trade U nions filed writ petition against the direction – Single Judg e of the High Court dismissed the writ petition – In intra-Court appeal, the Division Bench of the High Court affirmed the order of the Single Judge of the High Court – Aggrieved, Trade unions filed special leave petitions in the Supreme Court, which were dismissed – Therea fter, State Government

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