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Punjab Industrial Relations Act (XIX of 2010)--- ----Ss. 33 & 47---Change in date of birth of employee---Grievance petition---Employee requested the employer bank to change his date of birth from 1-5-1951 to 1-5-1954 in the record---Bank declined request of employee, who filed appeal before Federal Service Tribunal, which was dismissed, and employee having not challenged of the Service Tribunal in the Supreme Court, same attained finality---Employee claiming to be a workman filed belated grievance petition---Employee in his application-cum-bio data form, had himself disclosed his date of birth as 1-5-1951---Apart from that employee in his joining report had also shown said date of birth and his matriculation certificate also had shown the same date of birth---Chain of documents submitted by employee were available on record which stated date of birth as 1-5-1951---After putting in about 20 years of service, it dawned upon the employee that his date of birth was wrongly recorded in his matriculation certificate---Law permitted to agitate such an issue only within two years of joining service and not otherwise---Employer bank had committed no discrimination as there was no other example of any identical situation where the bank had changed the date of birth of any other employee---Grossly belated grievance petition, where in no plausible or solid reasons had been given by the employee for condonation of such a colossal delay, was rightly dismissed by the Labour Court---Appeal against of Labour Court was dismissed, in circumstances. Syed Iqbal Haider v. Federation of Pakistan and another 1998 SCMR 1494 and Qamaruddin v. Pakistan through Secretary, Establishment Division Islamabad another 2007 SCMR 66 rel. JUDGMENT ABDUL HAFEEZ CHEEMA (CHAIRMAN).--- This appeal impeaches the legality of the judgment dated 27-4-2011 passed by the learned Presiding Officer, Punjab Labour Court No.2, Lahore whereby the grievance petition filed by the appellant was dismissed. 2. The facts of the case briefly are that the appellant joined Habib Bank Ltd. as Clerk on 8-3-1976. His application-cum-Bio data form which was filed by the appellant himself disclosed his date of birth as…

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