https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=157824 Termination of a railway workman's service for unauthorised absence was treated as retrenchment because "termination of service for any reason whatsoever" was read broadly, subject only to express exceptions. The employer's failure to comply with the mandatory conditions for retrenchment under section 25F rendered the termination invalid, and the notice regime under section 9A was held irrelevant to such retrenchment. The workman was also found to have acquired temporary railway servant status under the Railway Establishment Manual through long continuous service, so summary termination without the prescribed procedure was void and inoperative. en-us Tue, 16 Feb 1982 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 01 Aug 2014 13:23:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=157824 Termination of a railway workman's service for unauthorised absence was treated as retrenchment because "termination of service for any reason whatsoever" was read broadly, subject only to express exceptions. The employer's failure to comply with the mandatory conditions for retrenchment under section 25F rendered the termination invalid, and the notice regime under section 9A was held irrelevant to such retrenchment. The workman was also found to have acquired temporary railway servant status under the Railway Establishment Manual through long continuous service, so summary termination without the prescribed procedure was void and inoperative. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 16 Feb 1982 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=157824