{"id":55164,"date":"2019-01-16T13:37:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T08:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=55164"},"modified":"2019-01-16T13:37:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T08:07:57","slug":"bombay-high-court-asks-best-workers-union-to-decide-on-withdrawal-of-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/bombay-high-court-asks-best-workers-union-to-decide-on-withdrawal-of-strike","title":{"rendered":"Bombay High Court asks BEST workers&#8217; union to decide on withdrawal of strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/best.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" data-attachment-id=\"55165\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/bombay-high-court-asks-best-workers-union-to-decide-on-withdrawal-of-strike\/best\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/best.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,168\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"best\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/best.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-55165\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/best.jpg?resize=300%2C168&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/best.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/01\/best.jpg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Bombay High Court has directed the BEST workers&#8217; union to take a final decision on the withdrawal of its ongoing strike by Tuesday evening and inform the court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The direction came after the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) told a bench of Chief Justice Naresh Patil and Justice N M Jamdar that it was willing to implement the redressal measure suggested by a high-powered committee on granting an interim pay hike to its employees.<\/p>\n<p>The counsel for BEST, M P Rao, told the bench that the corporation was &#8220;open to implementing a 10-step increment&#8221; for its employees with effect from February this year.<\/p>\n<p>The increase, however, will be implemented subject to the fact that the strike was called off this (Tuesday) evening, Rao told the bench.<\/p>\n<p>As per the previous submissions made by the BEST workers&#8217; union and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in the court, a &#8216;one-step&#8217; increase in pay for BEST workers amounts to around Rs 330 per person per month.<\/p>\n<p>In compliance with the court&#8217;s previous orders, the state government through Advocate General Ashutosh Kumbhakoni, submitted a list of measures recommended by the committee to address the demands raised by the workers&#8217; union.<\/p>\n<p>The committee, headed by the Chief Secretary, was constituted by the state last week.<\/p>\n<p>The committee in its report, has recommended among other things, that subject to the strike being called off, as an interim measure, workers be granted a &#8217;10-step increase&#8217; in salary for about 15,000 employees in a time-bound manner.<\/p>\n<p>This amount of increment, however, will be subsumed in the final agreement.<\/p>\n<p>It also recommended that upgradation and modernisation measures be implemented within the BEST, but no existing employees should be retrenched.<\/p>\n<p>The bench has been hearing since last week a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by lawyer Datta Mane, urging the court to pass interim orders directing the BEST workers to call off the strike immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Around 38,000 BEST employees have been on strike since the last eight days now.<\/p>\n<p>Some of their demands include a pay hike, revision of pay grade for junior level employees, and the merger of BEST&#8217;s budget with that of the BMC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bombay High Court has directed the BEST workers&#8217; union to take a final decision on the withdrawal of its ongoing strike by Tuesday evening and inform the court on Wednesday. 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