S K N Tec Lanka (private) Limited v. Commissioner General of Labour et al. – C A WRIT APPLICATION NO. 115/2014-2016

In the case between S K N Tec Lanka (Private) Limited (Petitioner) and the Commissioner General of Labour, Department of Labour, Assistant Commissioner of Labour, and nine named individual employees (Respondents), the central issue concerned whether the termination of nine employees invoked the Termination of Employment of Workmen (Special Provisions) Act, No. 45 of 1971 (as amended) and whether the Labour Commissioner’s order for reinstatement with back wages should be quashed by certiorari. The holding established that the Labour Commissioner’s decision was procedurally fair and that the failure to provide contrary evidence by the Petitioner did not warrant judicial interference. The principle reaffirmed was that writ jurisdiction will not be exercised to disturb administrative orders wh