TMI Blog1964 (11) TMI 104X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... xcept wages for January 2, 1961. The appellant Company carries on activity as engineers and contractors in different parts of West Bengal. It had at Sukchar a store yard and at the relevant time it employed 30 workmen at Sukchar of whom 11 were permanent and the remaining temporary. We are concerned with the dismissal of the permanent workmen from January 2, 1961. According to the practice of the appellant Company fourteen days were holidays in each year. They included the 1st of January. Whenever a holiday fell on a Sunday the usual practice was to make the following day a holiday and that is how the dispute arose over the 2nd of January which followed a Sunday in 1961. The case of the Union. in short, was that the eleven workmen did no ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... entioned. One Quigly, who was a Christian, was excused with a warning and deprivation of wages for 2nd January on the ground that he had informed the Works Manager that he would be unable to attend to his duties on 2nd January. One J. C. Bose was excused because he had joined on the 31st December after absence and was not in a position to know that the 2nd January was not declared a holiday. He was also warned and his absence was adjusted against leave due to him. Lastly, one A. K. Sarkar who was on leave till the 31st of December was excused because he was informed by Quigly that 2nd January would be a holiday. He was also warned and his absence was to be treated as leave with or without pay depending upon leave to his credit. These three ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... mber of cases in which the principles for the guidance of the Tribunals in such matters have been laid down by this Court. It is now settled law that the Tribunal is not to examine the finding or the quantum of punishment because the whole of the dispute is not really open before the Tribunal as it is ordinarily before a court of appeal. The Tribunal's powers have been stated by this Court in a large number of cases and it has been ruled that the Tribunal can only interfere if the conduct of the employer shows lack of bona fides or victimization of employee or employees or unfair labour practice. The Tribunal may in a strong case interfere with a basic error on a point of fact or a perverse finding, but it cannot substitute its own appr ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... n or unfair labour practice. Mr. Sen Gupta referred to various parts of the record of the enquiry to show that the conduct of the workmen was regarded as collective, that it was described as a strike, that it was considered to be the result of a conspiracy and that there was a demand for over time. Mr. Sen Gupta contended that, in the circumstances, this must be regarded as a case of victimization because only the permanent workers were subjected to this treatment. Mr. Sen Gupta hinted that there was an ulterior motive in dismissing the permanent workers and getting the work done by temporary hands so that the Union may break down and even the re-employment of three workmen, who were probably indispensable to the employer, was with the same ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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