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(a) Civil service--- ----Terms and conditions of service, alteration in--- Terms and conditions of service could not be unilaterally altered by the employer to the disadvantage of the employees. (b) Civil service--- ----Service benefits---Where an employee voluntarily accepted and received benefits under some arrangement with the employer out of his own free will then he could not turn around and seek benefits that were ordinarily applicable to other employees. Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited v. Said Rehman and others 2013 SCMR 642 ref. (c) Agricultural Development Bank Employees Pension and Gratuity Regulations, 1981--- ----Preamble---Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (Staff Regulations), 2005, Preamble---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 25---Plea of discrimination---Reasonable classification between two sets of employees---Employees of Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan received their pensionary benefits computed on basis of pension factor of 2.33%---Before Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan was converted into Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited, the bank issued a circular which reduced the pension factor to 1.15%---Said circular was applicable to those employees who opted for the Golden Handshake Scheme or were covered under the Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (Staff Regulations), 2005 ("first set of employees")---Employees of the Bank, who had neither opted under the Golden Handshake Scheme nor under Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (Staff Regulations), 2005 ("second set of employees"), upon their retirement were also given pensionary benefits on the basis of the revised pension factor of 1.15%, however on the orders of the High Court their pension factor was restored to 2.33%---First set of employees contended that their pension factor should also be restored to 2.33% as their terms and conditions of service could not be changed by the Bank unilaterally, and that they were being discriminated against in reference to the second set of employees; held, that the first set of employees received all benefits including pensionary benefits as provided in the scheme under which they exercised their option---Said employees on account of their own voluntary act considered the…

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