In Brief
Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company appealed against a High Court judgment upholding an Industrial Tribunal's award in favour of workers claiming direct employment status. The Supreme Court found that the High Court had committed an apparent error by misquoting the industrial reference (treating the award's operative portion as the reference) when deciding whether the Tribunal had exceeded its jurisdiction. The Court set aside the High Court's judgment and remanded the writ petitions for fresh reconsideration on merits, expressly refraining from commenting on any substantive issues to ensure the High Court could decide uninfluenced by the error."
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