{"id":48425,"date":"1958-08-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1958-08-17T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sri-ramachandra-spinning-mills-vs-its-workmen-pandalapaka-labour-on-18-august-1958"},"modified":"2018-06-28T03:31:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T22:01:31","slug":"sri-ramachandra-spinning-mills-vs-its-workmen-pandalapaka-labour-on-18-august-1958","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sri-ramachandra-spinning-mills-vs-its-workmen-pandalapaka-labour-on-18-august-1958","title":{"rendered":"Sri Ramachandra Spinning Mills vs Its Workmen (Pandalapaka Labour &#8230; on 18 August, 1958"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Andhra High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Sri Ramachandra Spinning Mills vs Its Workmen (Pandalapaka Labour &#8230; on 18 August, 1958<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1959) ILLJ 244 AP<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>1. In regard to the question of jurisdiction, the petitioner relies on S.33 of the Industrial Disputes Act (XIV of 1947) which runs thus :\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the pendency of any conciliation proceedings or proceedings before a tribunal in respect of any industrial dispute, no employer shall &#8211;\n<\/p>\n<p>(a) alter, to the prejudice of the workmen concerned in such dispute, the conditions of service applicable to them immediately before the commencement of such proceedings; or<\/p>\n<p>(b) discharge or punish, whether by dismissal or otherwise, any workman concerned in such dispute, save with the express permission in writing of the conciliation officer, board, or tribunal, as the case may be.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>2. His argument is that the High Court is a &#8220;tribunal&#8221; in regard to labour disputes. But that expression has been defined in S.2(r) of the Industrial Disputes Act as an industrial tribunal constituted under S.7A of the Act. The High Court is not a tribunal contemplated under S.33 of the Act and the petition is not maintainable. The petition is dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andhra High Court Sri Ramachandra Spinning Mills vs Its Workmen (Pandalapaka Labour &#8230; on 18 August, 1958 Equivalent citations: (1959) ILLJ 244 AP JUDGMENT 1. In regard to the question of jurisdiction, the petitioner relies on S.33 of the Industrial Disputes Act (XIV of 1947) which runs thus : &#8220;During the pendency of any conciliation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andhra-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sri Ramachandra Spinning Mills vs Its Workmen (Pandalapaka Labour ... on 18 August, 1958 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sri-ramachandra-spinning-mills-vs-its-workmen-pandalapaka-labour-on-18-august-1958\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sri Ramachandra Spinning Mills vs Its Workmen (Pandalapaka Labour ... on 18 August, 1958 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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