Mumbai: Employer gets month's jail-term for not reinstating an employee

Mumbai | Sunday | 18th August, 2019

Summary:

Deciding on an almost nine-year-old complaint regarding non-compliance of another labour court order of 2010, a city labour court sentenced a factory owner to a month of imprisonment for not reinstating an employee. Pronouncing his decision for the proprietor Shahid Shaikh of Saba Engineering Works, judge DS Kolte said, "Complaint of unfair labour practice was filed in 2006. Till date, not a single letter was issued to the complainant to resume work as per order. The defence of the proprietor was that he had called the complainant Rayees Ansari to resume duty, but Ansari was not interested to do so. The Other SideThe defence of the proprietor was that he had called the complainant Rayees Ansari to resume duty, but Ansari was not interested to do so..