HIMACHAL PRADESH HIGH COURT ISSUES JUDGEMENT ON THE STATE OF H.P. AND ANOTHER V/S PRAKASH CHAND

SHIMLA, India, April 26 -- Himachal Pradesh High Court issued the following judgment on March 26:

Being aggrieved and dissatisfied with award dated 23.07.2022 (Annexure P-1), whereby learned Labour Courtcum- Industrial Tribunal, Kangra at Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh while answering the reference made to it in affirmative, directed petitioner-Department to reinstate the respondent-workman with continuity and seniority, petitionerDepartment has approached this Court in the instant proceedings, praying therein to set-aside the aforesaid award.

2. Precisely, the facts of the case, as emerge from the record are that the respondent-workman was engaged by the petitioner-Department in March, 2001 on daily wage basis at Forest Division Suket, Su...