CALCUTTA HIGH COURT
NIYOGI, J
Rivers Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. (M/s.) v. Inland Steam Navigation Workers' Unio
| Table of Content |
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| 1. entitlement to double wages for sundays and holidays (Para 1 , 4 , 6) |
| 2. jurisdiction limitation of civil court regarding the award interpretation (Para 11 , 12) |
| 3. final ruling on appeal and suit dismissal (Para 17) |
1. The appellant companies were the defendants in a suit, brought by the Respondent Union, for a declaration that, under an award of the Industrial Tribunal, the workers, that is, the working staff of the aforesaid companies, who constituted the above Union were entitled to double of their daily wages for working on Sundays and other holidays, exclusive of or in addition to their monthly salaries, and for a permanent injunction restraining the defendant companies from making compulsory deductions from the salaries of the employees concerned in terms of their circular, dated August 10, 1957. The suit was instituted on August 26, 1957, and it was eventually decreed by the learned Subordinate Judge on contest on March 22, 1958. Against this decree, the present appeal was filed on May 1958.
2. The material facts lie within a short compass and the material events, which led to the institution of the instant suit may in the context of the relevant facts, be se
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