1. This intra-court appeal is directed against the judgment and order
dated May 20, 2025, passed by a learned Single Judge of this Court,
whereby the award of the National Industrial Tribunal, Kolkata, dated
July 30, 2020, in Reference Case No NT-03 of 205 was upheld. By the
impugned award, the learned Tribunal rejected the appellants’ claim for
a 19% salary hike, a demand asserted by the mint workers as a
purportedly agreed condition precedent, for increasing their weekly
working hours from 37.5 hours to 44 hours.
2. The mint workers claim that the general manager of the three mint
offices at Calcutta, Bombay, and Andhra Pradesh has promised them
that their claim for a salary hike of 19% will be ‘favourably considered’
by the Department of Expenditure, Finance Ministry, Government of
India. The latter, therefore, is bound to grant the said salary hike.
