2026 LLR WEB 710 - BOMBAY HIGH COURT Fire Brigade Department of Municipal Corporation, lacking independent legal identity, is an integral part of the industrial establishment. INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT - Unity of establishment - Functional integrality - Fire Brigade Department - Municipal Corporation - Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 - MRTU & PULP Act,...... read full judgement

2026 LLR WEB 709 - BOMBAY HIGH COURT Mere storage of medicines in a refrigerator by a trader does not constitute a manufacturing process under the ESI Act. EMPLOYEES STATE INSURANCE - Manufacturing process - Cold storage - Refrigerator - Trader - Storage of medicines - Section 2(12), Section 2(14-AA) of the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 -...... read full judgement

2026 LLR WEB 708 - BOMBAY HIGH COURT Mere completion of 240 days of service does not confer permanency in public employment absent a sanctioned vacant post. UNFAIR LABOUR PRACTICE - Temporary public employment - Successive short-term appointment orders - 240 days of service - Sanctioned vacant post - Regularisation - Permanency - Section 25F and Sect...... read full judgement

2026 LLR WEB 707 - ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT Outsourcing contract workers have no locus standi to challenge conversion of posts in a corporation with which they have no employer-employee relationship. REGULARIZATION- Locus standi- Outsourcing contract workers- Employer-employee relationship- Conversion of posts- The petitioners, working as Shift Operators at various sub-stations through outsou...... read full judgement