Infrastructure in labour courts

The Bombay High Court last week passed a series of directions to provide infrastructure facilities to labour and industrial courts in Maharashtra on a petition moved by the Federation of Labour Law Practitioners Association. The government shall provide adequate space in the court rooms, sitting arrangements, basic facilities such as water, toilet and continuous power supply. All posts of judges should be filled and they shall be provided quarters. The courts should be shifted to the government’s own buildings within five years and till then the landlords should be told to provide adequate facilities in the existing rented buildings. The high court had earlier in the month passed a 210-page judgment on the overall conditions of subordinate courts in the state. All the directions in that judgment will be applicable to the labour/industrial courts also.