Judgement

JUDGMENT:- Special leave granted. The appeal is heard. The appellant is the union of employees in the Delhi Municipal Corporation. Some of the members of the appellant union have been working as Vaccinators/Immunisors on daily wages under the Delhi Municipal Corporation for more than eight years whereas many others who have been regularly appointed and are doing same kind of work are being paid higher salary and allowances every month. Even though the Vaccinators/Immunisors who have been working on daily wages have been working for a long number of years no action has been taken by the Delhi Municipal Corporation for regularising their services. In view of the disparity in the payment of wages and the neglect on the part of the Corporation regarding the regularisation of the services of the daily rated workmen there arose an industrial dispute and the dispute was referred by the competent authority for adjudication to the Industrial Tribunal No. 3, Delhi under a notification dated 23-11-1981. The question which was referred to the Tribunal was :

"Whether the workmen mentioned in Annexure A need to be regularised as Vaccinators/Immunisors in the scale of Rs. 260-430 and if s