{"id":35591,"date":"2005-05-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/philips-india-ltd-vs-philips-employees-union-and-ors-on-6-may-2005"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:21:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T04:51:57","slug":"philips-india-ltd-vs-philips-employees-union-and-ors-on-6-may-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/philips-india-ltd-vs-philips-employees-union-and-ors-on-6-may-2005","title":{"rendered":"Philips India Ltd. vs Philips Employees Union And Ors. on 6 May, 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Supreme Court of India<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Philips India Ltd. vs Philips Employees Union And Ors. on 6 May, 2005<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (2006) ILLJ 741 SC<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: N S Hegde, S Sinha<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p>1. By the impugned order all that the High Court has done is to direct the Conciliation Officer to take into consideration the dispute and file a report. But it is true that the High Court has further observed that if there is failure to report, appropriate orders in accordance with law will have to be made. We do not think this observation of the High Court, in any way, prevents the petitioner from taking recourse to challenge the order of reference if any either before the High Court or raise it as preliminary issue before the Industrial Tribunal as the case may be in which event the observations made by the High Court will not come in the way of the issue being decided afresh. With the above observation these special leave petitions are disposed of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court of India Philips India Ltd. vs Philips Employees Union And Ors. on 6 May, 2005 Equivalent citations: (2006) ILLJ 741 SC Bench: N S Hegde, S Sinha ORDER 1. 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