GHIAL challenges central labour wing's diktat

Hyderabad: After the customs department, it is the turn of the central labour department to be dragged to the AP High Court by the GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL).
On Monday, GHIAL filed a petition in the court urging it to restrain the central labour wing from initiating any action against them and declare that only the state labour department and not the central one had jurisdiction over the labour affairs at the international airport at Shamshabad.
The GMR stated in its petition, filed through its general manager (legal) K B S Sarma, that they got themselves registered as principal employer before the labour department pertaining to the AP state government under the provisions of Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act 1970.
When the central labour department insisted on a similar registration with them also, the GMR obtained a letter from the assistant labour commissioner of the state and sent it to the central labour wing saying that under the provisions of this Act, the appropriate government is the state government and not the central government. But the central authorities made it clear that this was unlawful and that the GMR was bound by the MoU it entered into with the union government. And also under the Airport Authority of India Act, it is the central government which is the appropriate government and not the state government.
04/11/08 Times of India

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Categories: Airports Nov 2008