Judgment

GAJENDRAGADKAR, J. : Two items of dispute between the appellant Pfizer Private Ltd., and the respondents, its employees, were referred for adjudication to the Industrial Tribunal, Bombay, by the Government of Maharashtra under Ss. 10(1)(d) and 12(5) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 on January 22, 1962. Both these items arose out of the proposed changes which the appellant wanted to make in the terms of employment governing the service of the respondents-. The appellant proposed to reduce the existing paid holidays to 8 instead of 27 to which respondents were entitled because so long, the appellant has been giving to its employees the benefit of public holidays as declared under the Negotiable Instruments Act.

This was the first item of dispute between the parties. The second item of dispute was in regard to refixation of the hours of work. The appellant desired to introduce three shifts in most of its departments and accordingly it had given a notice of change under S.9A of the Industrial Disputes Act. Both these proposed changes were resisted by the respondents. The Tribunal has rejected the appellant s case for the introduction of three shifts in its factory and this