It took a long time 23 years to be precise but R S Samant and 94 other employees of a shipping corporation will finally get their due. Samant and the others were retrenched (laid off) in August 1992 by Mackinnon Mackenzie and, since then, they have been fighting every day from the Industrial Court right to the Supreme Court for their wages and to prove that they had been treated unfairly.

Samant says he had joined the company in 1965 and was 52 years old when he was laid off. Pic/Sameer Markande