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The Delhi High Court has restrained AIIMS Nurses Union from continuing with its indeterminate strike.
“Respondent is restrained from continuing with the strike till further orders,” a single bench of Justice Navin Chawla said.
Justice Navin Chawla, in AIIMS vs AIIMS Nurses Union, had passed the order after observing that the nurses’ grievances were being addressed.
The petition was filed by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) that the strike was not legal as no six-week notice in terms of Section 22 of the Industrial Disputes Act was served to the institute.
Advocate VSR Krishna, for AIIMS, said that the strike was against public interest as the institute was a “public utility.”
Krishna said that nurses left their job, and AIIMS is a COVID-19 hospital.
He further urged the court to direct the nurses to go back to work as the work had come to a “standstill.”
On 14th, AIIMS Nurses Union went on a strike over demands which included the “payment fixation exercise” under the Sixth Central Pay Commission and 80 percent reservation for female nurses.