ORDER

This petition has been filed challenging the impugned order dated

05.02.2025 passed by the I Additional Labour Court, Chennai in O.P No.118 of

2021.

2.The learned counsel for the petitioners/Management would submit that the respondent workman initially entered the services of the first petitioner Management Hospital at Chennai in the year 1996. Subsequently, his services were transferred to Apollo Hospitals, Mumbai, on 06.10.2017 and he reported for duty there on 30.05.2018. Following his transfer, the conditions of his services underwent a change and thereafter, his services were governed by the terms and conditions applicable to the Mumbai Hospital from the date of his transfer. It is the further case of the petitioners/Management that on 12.08.2020, the Mumbai Hospital issued an order of dismissal terminating the respondent from service on the ground that the respondent had abandoned his duties during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Aggrieved by the same, the respondent raised an industrial dispute before the Conciliation Officer. The petitioners/Management, by letter dated 04.01.2021, expressing their willingness to provide employment to the respondent. Since there was no positive r