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The captioned Writ Petition (hereinafter referred to as “WP” for the sake of brevity, convenience, and clarity) has been filed seeking the issuance of a writ of certiorari to assail the award dated 01.12.2022 passed by the Central Government Industrial Tribunal-cum-Labour Court, Chennai (hereinafter referred to as “Labour Court” for the sake of brevity) in I.D. No.121 of 2015 (hereinafter referred to as the “impugned order”). By the said order, the Industrial Dispute referred to by the Central Government, Ministry of Labour and Employment regarding whether the demand of the petitioner-Union to absorb and regularize the members of BHEL Complex Cooperative Labourers is legal and justified came to be rejected.

2. Factual Background :

2.1. The petitioner claims to be a registered labour union established to safeguard the welfare of all members of the second respondent. Initially, 1121 members were working under the first respondent. The first respondent, in order to reduce expenditure on its workforce, introduced a system of contract labour to carry out regu