Reinstated with back wages

IN Media Watch Briefs | 20/11/2014

The Delhi High Court ruled on November 17 that 272 workers of the Hindustan Times be reinstated with back wages for the past nine years. Justice Suresh Kait has termed their retrenchment arbitrary, and upheld the earlier judgement of the Industrial Tribunal on January 23, 2012 which had ordered reinstatement of the workers. The latest judgement clarifies that this must be done with back wages.

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