SC upholds broad definition of industry, only for pending cases

SC retains broad definition of ‘industry’NEW DELHI: A nine-judge Supreme Court bench on Thursday settled a decades-old debate over the appropriateness of its 1978 ruling giving an expansive definition to "industry" to protect workmen against arbitrary retrenchment, and said it would apply to all organisations, includin

‘Industry’ under Industrial Relation Code will be interpreted in its ‘own text and context’, says top court; the 1978 verdict had enabled workers employed in a wide range of jobs to have a legal recourse, including collective bargaining, against unfair labour practices by employers