P&H: Refuses To Interfere With Labour Court Award Dismissing Workman’s Claim For Reinstatement as petitioner was not in employment of respondents but of contractors engaged from time to time

(i) Service — Employer and employee relationship — Petitioner failed to establish that petitioner was directly employed by respondents — Finding that relationship of employer and employee existed between petitioner and contractors and not between petitioner and respondents was a pure finding of fact based...

(ii) Service — Completion of 240 days — Plea of completion of 240 days of continuous service was of no avail once it stood established that petitioner was not in employment of respondents but of contractors engaged from time to time, since continuous service under...

(iii) Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, Ss.25-G, 25-H — Retrenchment — Plea regarding violation of Ss.25-G and 25-H did not survive as petitioner failed to name any junior employee retained in service or any person recruited to post after alleged termination. (Para 8)

(iv) Service — Sham or camouflage contract — Onus to establish that contractual arrangement was sham or camouflage to conceal direct relationship of employer and employee lay upon petitioner, and no material was placed on record to discharge that onus. (Para 8)