CAV JUDGMENT

(PER: THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE B.M.SHYAM PRASAD)

This intra-court appeal by M/s. Grasim Industries Limited [the appellant] is as against the writ Court’s order dated 14.02.2023 in W.P. No.115417/2019. The first respondent [the Union] has filed this in W.P. No.115417/2019 calling in question the second respondent’s order dated 14.08.2018 in the proceedings No.4/2017 [Annexure–H] and the third respondent’s order dated 30.10.2019 [Annexure–K]. The second respondent’s order dated 14.08.2018 is under Section 5[3] of the Industrial Employment [Standing Orders] Act, 1946 [for short, ‘the I.E. Act’], and the third respondent’s order is in appeal under Section 6 of the I.E. Act confirming the second respondent’s order.

2. The second and third respondents’ impugned orders relate to the age of retirement of the workmen with the appellant at its Chemical Division in Karwar. The second respondent has modified the appellant’s Certified Standing Orders enhancing the age of the workmen to 60 years from 58 years, and the third respondent has confirmed the same. The appellant has unsuccessfully challenged these respondents’ orders in the subject petition in W.P. No.115417/2017. The writ C