This intra-court appeal before the Calcutta High Court (Division Bench) arose from a long-standing dispute between mint workers at the Calcutta, Bombay, and Andhra Pradesh mints and the mint management, concerning a claimed 19% salary hike as a condition for agreeing to increase their weekly working hours from 37.5 hours to 44 hours. The workers contended that the General Managers of the respective mints had promised to secure a 19% salary hike from the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, and that this promise was binding. The National Industrial Tribunal, Kolkata, by its award dated July 30, 2020, rejected the workers' claim, holding that the General Managers lacked authority to bind the Department of Expenditure to a definite 19% hike, that the phrase 'favourable consideration' conferred no legal right, and that the minutes of the April 15, 1998 meeting and the conciliation report of May 5, 1998 constituted a valid settlement under which workers agreed to work 44 hours per week in exchange for 5th Pay Commission benefits only. The learned Single Judge upheld the Tribunal's award on May 20, 2025, and the present Division Bench appeal challenges that judgment; the judgment text provided records the court's analysis up to the point of examining the legal sanctity of settlements arrived at in conciliation proceedings, but does not contain a final operative order.