Workers’ Compensation Awards Pre-Date Rolta’s Insolvency Resolution; Bombay High Court Says Crystallised Court Deposits Belong to Employees and Cannot Return to New Management
Rolta India Limited employed Anil Vishwanath Nandoskar, Milind Krishna Gawade and Sanil Suresh Manjrekar as Data Preparation Operators. The company transferred them from Mumbai to Chennai, Calcutta and Chandigarh respectively. The employees challenged the transfers as an unfair labour practice before the Industrial Court, Mumbai, but were denied interim relief and consequently reported at their transferred locations.
The employees later applied for leave and returned to Mumbai. On 7 June 2004, Rolta terminated their services through composite…