This intra-court appeal before the Calcutta High Court (Division Bench) arose from a long-standing dispute between mint workers at Calcutta, Bombay, and Andhra Pradesh and the mint management over a claimed 19% salary hike, which the workers asserted was a condition precedent agreed upon for increasing their weekly working hours from 37.5 to 44 hours. The National Industrial Tribunal, Kolkata, by its award dated July 30, 2020, rejected the workers' claim, holding that the General Managers of the respective mints had no authority to bind the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance to a definite 19% salary hike, and that the April 1998 meeting minutes only committed to placing the demand before the Department for 'favourable consideration', conferring no enforceable legal right. The Tribunal also held that the minutes of the April 15, 1998 meeting and the conciliation report of May 5, 1998 constituted a valid agreement under which workers agreed to work 44 hours per week in exchange for salary increments as per the 5th Pay Commission recommendations. A learned Single Judge of the Calcutta High Court upheld the Tribunal's award on May 20, 2025, and the present Division Bench appeal challenges that judgment. The judgment text provided concludes mid-analysis, with the court examining the legal sanctity of settlements arrived at during conciliation proceedings under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947.