2005 Supreme(MP) 851

2006(2) JLJ 302
A.K. Shrivastva, J.
Orient Paper Mills v. Regional Provident Fund Commissioner and another
Miscellaneous Petition No. 2341 of 1991;
Decided on 17.8.2005.

Headnote:Employees‘ Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 -- Ss. 2(f) and 1 (3) -- persons unloading bamboos in factory premises of petitioner -- are employees of the petitioner within the meaning of S. 2(f) -- provisions of the Act are applicable to them.

       The petitioner has sought for quashment of order dated 9.7.1991 passed by respondent No. 1(Annexure P-13) whereby the petitioner establishment has been held to be liable under the Employees‘ Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (for brevity ‘the Act‘) and has been directed to extend its benefit to the eligible employees of transporters engaged by the petitioner for supply of raw material of regular production of establishment. The petitioner, by amendment, has further prayed to restrain respondent No.1 from quantifying the liability of the petitioner pursuant to the order Annexure P-13 dated 9.7.1991.[Para 1

       Held: (i) The person who is unloading the bamboos from the truck in the factory premises of the petitioner is doing work for monetary payment;

       (ii) the work of unloading the bamboos done by him is for the establishment and having nexus with the factory because unless and until the bamboos are brought in the factory premises, paper cannot be manufactured;

       (iii) the payment is made to the person, may be by the transporter to whom the petitioner makes the payment;

       (iv) the payment was made to the person in terms of money‘ for physical work and effort;

       (v) the persons coming in the truck to unload the bamboos in the factory premises are unloading the bamboos personally and this work is not being discharged through someone else;

       (vi) unless and until the bamboos are unloaded the petitioner‘s factory cannot manufacture the paper and, therefore, the work of unloading the bamboos is in connection with the work of establishment.

       Since all the answers are in affirmative, therefore, the view of this court is that the persons who come in the truck and unload the bamboos in the factory premises can be said to be the employees as defined under section 2(f) of the Act. In fact, they are employees for all practical purposes of the Act. (2004)3 see 514 and 1970 JLJ 29 distinguished. (1986) I see 32 and AIR 1965 se 1076 followed. [Para 16

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