Absorb apprentices, HC directs BHEL

The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court has directed Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Tiruchirapalli, to absorb apprentices who had been trained and given National Trade Certificate under various trades, including fitter and welder.

Dismissing an appeal filed by BHEL, Tiruchirapalli, Justices P K Mishra and P Murugesan said there was no need to interfere in the single judge's order that apprentices (petitioners) should be absorbed.

On BHEL counsel's argument that the management was following a new recruitment policy under which advertisements should be put out for recruitment, the bench said the apprentices had been trained much earlier on the condition that they would be absorbed.

The Ranipet unit of BHEL had also absorbed the apprentices after training. The employment policy itself had been that trainees be inducted as Grade B III employees, they said.

The BHEL ex-apprentices association submitted that BHEL was making efforts to recruit various people as fitters and welders without regularly employing them. Till the previous batch, BHEL recruited only trained hands and there was no justification to deny such employment to duly trained persons, they contended

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