https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=199862 Postal and telecommunication services performed as sovereign and welfare functions under statutory recruitment and conduct rules were held not to constitute an industry, so extra-departmental agents were not workmen under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. On that basis, the retrenchment safeguards in Section 25F did not apply to their termination. The governing service rules, which permitted termination by notice and payment in lieu of notice, controlled the relationship, and any entitlement was confined to amounts admissible under those rules. The Tribunal's attempt to apply the Industrial Disputes Act was therefore unsustainable. en-us Fri, 02 Feb 1996 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:22:32 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=199862 Postal and telecommunication services performed as sovereign and welfare functions under statutory recruitment and conduct rules were held not to constitute an industry, so extra-departmental agents were not workmen under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. On that basis, the retrenchment safeguards in Section 25F did not apply to their termination. The governing service rules, which permitted termination by notice and payment in lieu of notice, controlled the relationship, and any entitlement was confined to amounts admissible under those rules. The Tribunal's attempt to apply the Industrial Disputes Act was therefore unsustainable. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 02 Feb 1996 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=199862