In Brief
An employer challenged orders by the minimum wages authority directing her to pay two workers unpaid wages for work done from 1991–92. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal, holding that concurrent findings by the competent and appellate authorities were binding. The workers, necessary parties to the dispute, had not been impleaded in the writ petition; later impleadment applications were dismissed for delay and laches, especially after both workers died. The Court found no merit in the employer's challenges to the factual findings or the penalty imposed under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948.
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