Airport car park sweepers fall within the labour abolition notification and receive the earlier regularisation benefit.

Sweepers engaged in airport car parks were treated as covered by the notification under the Contract Labour (Abolition & Regulation) Act, 1970 because an airport includes passenger facilities and car parking forms part of those facilities. The Court read "building" in its ordinary sense to include appurtenances forming part of it and declined to give the notification a restricted meaning that would exclude car parks. On that basis, sweepers working in airport car parks were brought within the same regularisation benefit recognised in the earlier decision.

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Issues: Whether sweepers engaged in airport car parks were covered by the notification issued under the Contract Labour (Abolition & Regulation) Act, 1970 and were entitled to the same regularisation benefit as sweepers covered by the earlier decision.

Analysis: The applications were founded on the claim that the earlier judgment directing regularisation of sweepers after abolition of the contract labour system applied equally to sweepers working in the parking areas of the airports. The objections were that a car park was not part of the building and that the notification, which prohibited contract labour for sweeping, cleaning, dusting and watching of buildings owned or occupied by the establishment, did not extend to those areas. The Court held that an airport necessarily includes passenger facilities and that car parking is part of such facilities. It further held that a building, in its ordinary sense, includes appurtenances forming part of it, and the notification could not be given a restricted meaning to exclude the car parks.

Conclusion: The sweepers working in the airport car parks were held to be covered by the notification and entitled to the benefit of the earlier regularisation decision.

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