Madhya Pradesh High Court in President, Birla Corporation Ltd and Another vs. Rajgovind Singh Misc No. 1383/2019 on August 24, 2024, overturned a labour court order requiring the employer to provide 15 (fifteen) days of compulsory work per month to a badli workman. The Court clarified that under Section 25C of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, a “badli workman” is one who temporarily replaces another workman listed on the muster rolls but loses this status if they complete one year of continuous service. Since the labour court found that the workman did not prove he worked for more than 240 (two hundred forty) days in a year and was thus a badli workman, the directive for compulsory work was deemed illegal.
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