JUDGEMENT
PRATHIBA M.SINGH, J. -
(1.)This hearing has been done through video conferencing.
(2.)The present contempt petition has been filed by the Petitioner-Union on behalf of two Workmen - Mr. Ashok Kumar and Mr. Gangadhar Kushwaha on the ground that the Respondent-Bank is in violation of the interim order dated 6th April, 2018 passed in W.P(C) 3296/2018 titled Corporation Bank v. Secretary Delhi General Workers Union.
(3.)The brief background is that both the Workmen were working as drivers in the Bank under executives of the Bank. They were directed to be reinstated by the CGIT vide award dated 29th November, 2017. The said award has been challenged before this Court in W.P.(C) 3296/2018 wherein the order dated 6th April, 2018 had been passed, which reads as under:-
1. By the impugned Award dated 29.11.2017, the Industrial Adjudicator on making a reference dated 23.12.2013 under sub section (2A) of Section 10 of the Industrial Disputes Act had directed the petitioner management to regularise the services of the workman whose names are mentioned in Annexure 'I' annexed to the reference.
2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that these workmen were in fact personal drivers of the executive/managerial staff and there was no relationship of employer and employee between the petitioner and workmen. However, he submits that the petitioner Bank has laid down the policy/guidelines for absorption of such personal Drivers with it as regular sub-staff and Peon-cum- Driver. He also admits that the factual position as observed by the Industrial Adjudicator that pursuant to the said policy guidelines of the petitioner Bank, the services of Shri Babu Lal, Surender Lal, Baldev Kumar and Sanjeev Kumar mentioned in Annexure 'I' have already been regularised. He submits that they have no hitch even to regularise the rest of the workmen mentioned in Annexure-1 subject to their meeting out the requisite criteria as per the policy guidelines of the petitioner Bank.
3. On taking steps, issue notice to the respondent by all permissible modes.
4. List on 19.11.2018. Meanwhile, neither the petitioner nor the concerned respondents shall take any coercive steps against each other till the next date of hearing."
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