SC bans contractual engagement of trolley retrievers in Delhi Airport

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday directed Delhi International Airport Pvt Ltd (DIAL) to abolish all contract labour at Delhi's international and domestic airports and regularise the services of trolley retrievers.
Much to the cheer of 136 trolley retrievers who were employed by contractor TDI International Private Ltd at the airports in 1992 but were sacked in 2003, the court directed DIAL to pay Rs 5 lakh to each of them as compensation since they could not be re-employed in place of the present work force.
Disposing of six petitions by employees and DIAL, a bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma said the July 26, 2004 central notification under the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act (CLRAA) prohibiting employment of contract labour in establishments of the Airport Authority of India (AAI) at IGI airport and domestic terminal was binding on DIAL as it took over the operations from AAI.
16/09/11 Times of India

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Categories: airports Sep 2011