Industrial Disputes Act, 1947

Act No. 14 of 1947 81 sections

Text as published by the Legislative Department, from the copy archived on 14 May 2021. Amendments made after that date and before the repeal may be missing; check the official Gazette for them.

Repealed and replaced by the Industrial Relations Code, 2020 from 21 November 2025. It still governs matters and proceedings from before that date, as the repealing law provides, which is why the judgments below apply it.

761 Supreme Court judgments considering this law. Search within these.

• Jitendra Nath Biswas v. Empire of India & Ceylone Tea Co. & Anr.
  1989 INSC 2211 August 1989Dismissed
• Telco Convoy Drivers Mazdoor Sangh & Anr. v. State of Bihar & Ors.
  1989 INSC 15228 April 1989Appeal(s) allowed
• Calcutta Port Sharmik Union v. Calcutta River Transport Association & Ors.
  1988 INSC 27513 September 1988Appeal(s) allowed
• P.K. Singh and Others v. Presiding Officer & Others
  1988 INSC 17615 July 1988Dismissed
• Des Raj, Etc. Etc. v. State of Punjab & Ors. Etc.
  1988 INSC 11120 April 1988Appeal(s) allowed
• B.B. Rajwanshi v. State of U.P. & Ors.
  1988 INSC 1008 April 1988Appeal(s) allowed
• Union of India & Anr. v. M.T.S.S.D. Workers Union & Ors.
  1988 INSC 2727 January 1988Dismissed
• Bhagwan Dass Chopra v. United Bank of India & Ors.
  1987 INSC 33717 November 1987Appeal(s) allowed
• National Engineering Industries Limited v. Shri Shri Kishan Bhageria & Others
  1987 INSC 32811 November 1987Dismissed
• Christian Medical College Hospital Employees' Union & Anr. v. Christian Medical College Vellore Association & Ors.
  1987 INSC 28820 October 1987Appeal(s) allowed
• Krishna District Co-Operative Marketing Society Limited, Vijayawada v. N.V. Purnachandra Rao & Ors.
  1987 INSC 1933 August 1987Dismissed
• Makhan Singh v. Narainpura Co-Operative Agricultural Service Society Ltd. & Anr.
  1987 INSC 17117 July 1987Appeal(s) allowed
• Samarjit Ghosh v. Bennett Coleman & Company and Another
  1987 INSC 16629 June 1987Appeal(s) allowed
• Bharat Barrel & Drum Manufacturing Company Pvt. Limited v. Bharat Barrel Employees Union
  1987 INSC 999 April 1987Appeal(s) allowed
• V. Veerarajan & Ors. v. Government of Tamil Nadu & Ors.
  1987 INSC 1114 January 1987Appeal(s) allowed
• Dishergarh Power Supply Company Ltd., Calcutta & Anr. v. Workmen of Dishergarh Supply Co. Ltd. & Ors.
  1986 INSC 13415 July 1986Appeal(s) allowed
• Fakirbhai Fulabhai Solanki v. Presiding Officer & Anr.
  1986 INSC 1128 May 1986Appeal(s) allowed
• Reserve Bank of India & Ors. v. C.N. Sahasranaman & Ors.
  1986 INSC 10030 April 1986Appeal(s) allowed
• S. Govindaraju v. K.S.R.T.C. & Anr.
  1986 INSC 7615 April 1986Appeal(s) allowed
• Monthly-Rated Workmen at the Wadala Factory of the Indian Hume Pipe Company Ltd. v. Indian Hume Pipe Company Ltd., Bombay
  1986 INSC 7211 April 1986Appeal(s) allowed
• Bharat Singh v. Management of New Delhi Tuberculosis Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru Marg, New Delhi and Others
  1986 INSC 624 April 1986Appeal(s) allowed
• S.G. Chemical and Dyes Trading Employees' Union v. S.G. Chemicals and Dyes Trading Limited and Another
  1986 INSC 593 April 1986Appeal(s) allowed
• General Manager, Security Paper Mill, Hoshangabad v. R.S. Sharma & Ors.
  1986 INSC 1614 February 1986Dismissed
• H.D. Singh v. Reserve Bank of India & Ors.
  1985 INSC 19510 September 1985Appeal(s) allowed
• Gopal v. The Administrative Officer, Madhya Pradesh Khadi and Village Industries Board and Ors.
  1985 INSC 18119 August 1985Appeal(s) allowed
• Union of India and Another v. Tulsiram Patel and Others
  1985 INSC 15511 July 1985Disposed of
• Workmen Employed by Indian Oxygen Ltd. v. Indian Oxygen Ltd.
  1985 INSC 1192 May 1985Partly allowed
• Upendra Chandra Chakraborty and Anr. v. United Bank of India
  1985 INSC 11030 April 1985Dismissed
• Inder Pal Yadav and Ors. Etc. v. Union of India and Ors Etc.
  1985 INSC 9618 April 1985Dismissed
• Ram Avtar Sharma & Ors. Etc. v. State of Haryana and Anr. Etc.
  1985 INSC 8611 April 1985Allowed
• Sant Raj & Anr. v. O.P. Singla & Anr.
  1985 INSC 819 April 1985Partly allowed
• Philips India Ltd. v. Labour Court, Madras & Ors.
  1985 INSC 7026 March 1985Appeal(s) allowed
• Food Corporation of India Workers' Union v. Food Corporation of India and Others
  1985 INSC 461 March 1985Allowed
• Workmen of the Food Corporation of India v. M/S. Food Corporation of India
  1985 INSC 4028 February 1985Appeal(s) allowed
• M. P. Irrigation Karamchari Sangh v. The State of M. P. and Anr.
  1985 INSC 3827 February 1985Appeal(s) allowed
• Balmer Lawrie Workers' Union, Bombay and Anr. v. Balmer Lawrie and Co. Ltd. and Ors.
  1984 INSC 24121 December 1984Dismissed
• Workmen of Hindustan Steel Ltd. and Anr. v. Hindustan Steel Ltd. and Ors.
  1984 INSC 23712 December 1984Appeal(s) allowed
• Goa Sampling Employees' Association v. General Superintendance Co. of India Pvt. Ltd. and Ors.
  1984 INSC 23211 December 1984Appeal(s) allowed
• General Labour Union (Red Flag) Bombay v. B. v. Chavan and Ors.
  1984 INSC 21416 November 1984Disposed of
• M/S. Msco. Pvt. Ltd. v. Union of India & Ors.
  1984 INSC 20631 October 1984Dismissed