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Setback for municipal staff in row over Diwali bonus

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Sep 25, 2012 01:15 AM IST

A division bench of the Bombay high court on Monday stayed a single judge’s order, which had granted relief to thousands of corporation employees regarding payment of Diwali bonus. More than 40,000 employees had been denied the bonus in view of a two-day strike in September 2011.

A division bench of the Bombay high court on Monday stayed a single judge’s order, which had granted relief to thousands of corporation employees regarding payment of Diwali bonus. More than 40,000 employees had been denied the bonus in view of a two-day strike in September 2011.

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The direction was passed in response to an appeal filed by the BMC against an order passed in August by a single judge of the high court dismissing the petition filed by the BMC and directed them to pay the bonus.

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A division bench of chief justice Mohit Shah and justice Nitin Jamdar has now admitted the appeal filed by the civic body and ordered an ad-interim stay on the order.

The judge had granted relief while hearing a petition filed by the civic body challenging an order of Industrial Tribunal that had asked BMC to pay the bonus to the employees.

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