HALDIA REFINERY CANTEEN EMPS.UNION vs M/S INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LTD. .

The Supreme Court upheld the Calcutta High Court's Division Bench decision, which set aside the Single Judge's order directing Indian Oil Corporation Limited to absorb and regularize the appellants' services. The Court found that the appellants, employed in a statutory canteen run by a contractor, were not entitled to regularization as they were not direct employees of the corporation. The judgment emphasized that under the Indian Factories Act, 1948, the management is permitted to engage contractors for canteen services, and thus the appellants' claims were dismissed.