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Issues: Whether the State Government was justified in refusing to refer the dispute under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 on the ground that the employee was not a workman, and whether the High Court was right in directing a reference.
Analysis: The power of the appropriate Government to make a reference under Section 10(1) is administrative in character and is exercised on subjective satisfaction as to whether an industrial dispute exists or is apprehended. Before making a reference, the Government is entitled to consider whether the employee falls within the definition of "workman" under Section 2(s), because a reference cannot be made unless that basic condition is satisfied. On the materials placed before it, including the employee's duties, status, allowances, and power to sanction expenses, the State Government concluded that he was engaged in a managerial or administrative capacity and was therefore outside the statutory definition of workman. No irrelevant or foreign consideration was shown to have influenced that conclusion.
Conclusion: The refusal to make a reference was valid, and the High Court erred in issuing a mandamus directing the State Government to refer the dispute.
Ratio Decidendi: In deciding whether to make a reference under the Industrial Disputes Act, the appropriate Government may first determine whether the employee is a workman, and its administrative decision will not be interfered with in judicial review unless it is based on irrelevant or foreign considerations.
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