This teaching case is prepared to enable any learning group to study industrial relations issues in the context of legal, business and social environmental frameworks and not to highlight any right or wrong decision-making. Reconstruction of this dispute involved studying of over 150 documents involving, inter alia, demand notices, complaints, memoranda, telegrams, proceedings of conciliation meetings, communications including confidential between labour and district officials at various hierarchical levels. Though the case is real, the name Parikshit Steels Ltd. is a pseudonym. Real name of the firm is not used, or real names of interviewees or actual dates of events given. This is done for proprietary reasons as the idea is to focus on issues rather than any specific people, firm or date.
