The Vice President v. Joint Commissioner of Labour (Minimum Wages)
Case brief
What is this about?
Interim-directions order, Madras High Court, single bench (D. Bharatha Chakravarthy, J.), 08.01.2026. Subject: payment of last drawn wages/salary to a workman during pendency of a writ petition challenging a reinstatement order dated 03.10.2024 in T.N.S.E II/07/2018 passed by the Joint Commissioner of Labour (Minimum wages), Appellate Authority under the Tamil Nadu Shops & Establishments Act, 1947. Parties: Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. (management) v. K.N.Naresh (workman) and Joint Commissioner of Labour. Held: last drawn pay is the workman's statutory entitlement while a reinstatement order is under challenge; wages directed from January 2025 onwards, payable by the 5th of each succeeding month; interim stay made absolute; vacation petition deferred in view of early final hearing. Useful for: last-drawn-pay pendente lite directions, stays of reinstatement orders under the TN Shops & Establishments Act, employer-workman interim relief before the Madras High Court. No precedent cited; no quantum figure stated in the text.