https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=288639 Film production in a studio was treated as a manufacturing process under the Factories Act because raw film is transformed into a finished cinematograph film through camera work, lighting, sound recording and editing. The Court also indicated that "worker" is not confined to manual labour and may include intellectual, artistic, technical and scientific personnel engaged in the manufacturing process, with wages ordinarily distinguished from salary by the nature and periodicity of payment. Liability nevertheless depended on proof that the relevant departments employed the requisite number of wage-earning workers, and the factual record on that point was incomplete. en-us Mon, 18 Aug 1952 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 20 Jun 2020 09:54:26 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=288639 Film production in a studio was treated as a manufacturing process under the Factories Act because raw film is transformed into a finished cinematograph film through camera work, lighting, sound recording and editing. The Court also indicated that "worker" is not confined to manual labour and may include intellectual, artistic, technical and scientific personnel engaged in the manufacturing process, with wages ordinarily distinguished from salary by the nature and periodicity of payment. Liability nevertheless depended on proof that the relevant departments employed the requisite number of wage-earning workers, and the factual record on that point was incomplete. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 18 Aug 1952 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=288639