Supreme Court of India

Gujarat Mazdoor Sabha & Anr. v. The State of Gujarat

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Reported as [2020] 13 S.C.R. 886

Bench Dr. Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, Indu Malhotra and K.M. Joseph JJ.

Decided 1 October 2020

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From the headnote

Factories Act, 1948 – ss.5, 51, 54, 55 and 56 – Constitution of India – Arts. 352, 355 and 356 – trade union with a state-wide presence and another with a national presence u/Art .32 of the Constitution challenged the validity of the State’s notifications dated 17.04.2020 and 20.07.2020 – The notification dated 17.04.2020 issued u/s.5 of the Factories Act exempted all regis tered factories ‘from various provisions relating to weekly hours, daily hours, intervals for rest etc. for adult workers’ u/ss. 51, 54, 55 and 56 – The State Government issued another notification on 20.07.2020 and

Authorities it was built on

1994 S.R. Bommai v. Union of India and Ors. cited by 68
2017 Justice K S Puttaswamy (retd.), and Anr. v. Union of India and Ors. cited by 51
1950 Romesh Thappar v. The State of Madras cited by 33
2020 Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India & Ors. cited by 12
2001 S.M. Datta v. State of Gujarat and Anr. cited by 4
1972 Y. A. Mamarde and Ors. v. Authority Under the Minimum Wages Act (small Causes Court) Nagpur & Anr. cited by 3
2016 Extra Judicial Execution Victim Families Association (eevfam) & Anr. v. Union of India & Anr. cited by 2
2001 Barat Fritz Werner Ltd. v. State of Karnataka cited by 2
2003 National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd. v. Karri Pothuraju and Ors. cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2024 Sukanya Shantha v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2024 Association for Democratic Reforms & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2026 Union of India v. Heavy Electricals Fac.emp.union mentioned

Of those, 2 referred to · 1 mentioned

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