https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=199533 A post-abolition settlement that imposed an upper age limit for absorption of contract labour was treated as inconsistent with the statutory object of the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act where it arbitrarily excluded otherwise eligible workmen. The analysis emphasises that abolition is intended to prevent deprivation of livelihood and that courts may mould relief to give effect to that purpose. Absorption was upheld, but the monetary relief was confined to arrears from December 1996, not from the earlier date fixed by the Trial Court. en-us Thu, 25 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 06 Mar 2018 12:38:45 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=199533 A post-abolition settlement that imposed an upper age limit for absorption of contract labour was treated as inconsistent with the statutory object of the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act where it arbitrarily excluded otherwise eligible workmen. The analysis emphasises that abolition is intended to prevent deprivation of livelihood and that courts may mould relief to give effect to that purpose. Absorption was upheld, but the monetary relief was confined to arrears from December 1996, not from the earlier date fixed by the Trial Court. Case-Laws Companies Law Thu, 25 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=199533