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Issues: (i) Whether the Tamil Nadu Industrial Establishments (Conferment of Permanent Status to Workmen) Act, 1981 applied to the corporation and its employees. (ii) Whether, after the Inspector of Labour had already decided the employees' claim, the High Court could require them to raise a fresh industrial dispute on non-employment.
Issue (i): Whether the Tamil Nadu Industrial Establishments (Conferment of Permanent Status to Workmen) Act, 1981 applied to the corporation and its employees.
Analysis: The corporation was found to be carrying on multiple activities of a commercial character, including purchase and supply of medicines, distribution of equipment, warehousing, maintenance, and construction for third parties. The mere presence of construction among its objects did not attract the statutory exemption, because the exemption applies to establishments engaged exclusively in construction work. The employees concerned were also found to have completed the requisite continuous service of 480 days in 24 calendar months, bringing them within the statutory entitlement to permanency.
Conclusion: The Act applied to the corporation and the concerned employees, and the claim to permanent status was sustained.
Issue (ii): Whether, after the Inspector of Labour had already decided the employees' claim, the High Court could require them to raise a fresh industrial dispute on non-employment.
Analysis: The remand from the earlier round was limited to consideration of the applicability of the Act. Once that issue was answered in favour of the employees, the order of the Inspector of Labour, rendered under the Act and holding the employees entitled to permanent status, ought not to have been displaced by directing them to start afresh under the Industrial Disputes Act. Re-litigation of an already decided entitlement was unwarranted.
Conclusion: The High Court could not insist on a fresh industrial dispute, and the Inspector of Labour's order was to be given effect to.
Final Conclusion: The corporation's challenge failed, and the employees' claim for implementation of the permanent status order succeeded, with consequential relief to follow according to law.
Ratio Decidendi: An establishment engaged in several commercial activities does not lose statutory coverage merely because one of its objects is construction, and where entitlement has already been finally determined under the governing statute, a limited remand cannot be used to compel the workmen to re-establish the same claim in fresh proceedings.
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