...money due to workers from employers and other related regulations, are also written into the Act. Against this backdrop, we have to see whether a claim by an employer from his workmen of compensation...not a dispute or difference between employers and workmen ‘which is connected with the employment or non-employment or the terms of employment or with the conditions of labour, of any person’. We are...interpretative process. As yet, and hopefully, claims by employers against workmen on grounds of tortious liability have not found a place in the pharmacopoeia of Indian industrial law. However, as earlier...

...right of employers to carry on their occupation/profession.15. Whenever there is a dispute between the employer and employees in the sphere of industrial relations, generally the disputes...large. In the conflict between employer and employees the struggle centres round a particular type of industrial dispute. Both employees and employers use psychological coercions. The employers...wise or prudent?18. In industrial relations collective bargaining is a recognised, mode of pressing one's demands and getting the same achieved. The disputes between the employers and...

...or difference between employers and employers or between employers and workmen or between workmen and workmen, which is connected with the employment or non-employment or the terms of employment or...) should, therefore, be liberally construed so as to include as to who is the real spokesman of the workmen in the collective bargaining with the employers. It is unnecessary to express...hunger strikes and fast unto death, boycotts and dharnas and the obstructionist tactics of suits and writ petitions in the course of law.17. After the dismissal of the suit filed by...

...Advisory Committee was constituted by the Bar Council of India. A Sub-Committee on ‘Strikes, Boycotts & Abstaining from Court Works’ was also constituted. Law Commission had finalized and...well-settled law and having seen that repeated strikes and boycotts have shaken the confidence of the public in the legal profession and affected the administration of justice, there would be self..., strikes, boycotts, and public ridicule. This is the tragedy of the Indian Bar today which had otherwise a noble tradition of being in the forefront of the freedom struggle and maintaining the rule...

...1. This is an appeal filed by the original defendants against the order passed by the City Civil Court, Bombay, granting injunction in terms of prayer Cl. (a) of the notice of motion taken..., 1926. In the course of the plaintiff's business the Filmalaya Studio was hired by various producers of the films and the plaintiffs used to give facilities such as sound recording, cameras, setting...and lighting and for that purpose the plaintiffs had employed several workmen. By a letter, dated 11 December, 1979, the union made various demands on behalf of nineteen workers alleging that these...

...persons representing the INTUC and the Cement Industry. G. Ramanujam who is nominated by the 4th respondent is admittedly the President of INTUC whereas A.L Kapoor is one of the employers in the Cement...respondent and the 4th respondent under Section 10A(1) of the Act, the disputes between the employers in the Cement Industry and the workmen employed by them all over India should have been, in the normal...parties to resolve the disputes; that it would be proper for the Government to refer the matter for arbitration to bring about am atmosphere of mutual trust among the employers and workers represented...

.... 337; (2003) 2 SCC 45], the Supreme Court dealt with the scope of such court boycotts and also the duty of the court in going...absence of lawyers. In other words, Courts must not be privy to strikes or calls for boycotts. It is held that if a lawyer, holding a Vakalat of a client, abstains from attending Court due to a strike...their employers. There may be reasons for distinguishing the case of those, who may have acted as mere dumb driven cattle from those, who have taken an active part in fomenting the trouble and instigating...

...India [2003 (2) SCC 45], the Supreme Court dealt with the scope of such court boycotts and also the duty of the court in going ahead with the matters in spite of such strikeouts. In paragraphs 21...be privy to strikes or calls for boycotts. It is held that if a lawyer, holding a Vakalat of a client, abstains from attending Court due to a strike call, he shall be personally liable to pay costs...must be clearly understood by those to take part in an illegal strike that thereby they make themselves liable to be dealt with by their employers. There may be reasons for distinguishing the case of...

...competition by object.30. RELEVANT CASE LAWS OF OTHER-JURISDICTIONS U.S CASE LAW30.1 Group boycotts, or concerted refusals by traders to deal with other traders, have...competition violation of Section 5 of the FTC Act. The FTC ruled that the boycott was illegal per se and passed an order prohibiting respondents from initiating future such boycotts. The Court of Appeals...violated. The court's implicit assumption that the antitrust laws permit, but do not require, the condemnation of price fixing and boycotts without proof of market power is in error, since, although the...