Case Details

Citation(s)
2024 SLG 2684 2024 SLD 2684 2024 PLC 60
Supreme Court of Pakistan
Civil Appeal No. 377 of 2014, decided on 17th October,2023.(Against the judgment dated 19.12.2013 of the HighCourt of Balochistan, Quetta passed in C.P. No. 139 of2012)Date of hearing: 12th September, 2023.
Present: Sardar Tariq Masood, Amin-ud-Din Khan and Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi, JJ
Shahid Anwar Bajwa, Advocate Supreme Court and M. Sharif Janjua, Advocate-on-Record for Appellant.Abdul Hafeez Amjad, Advocate Supreme Court and Sheikh Mehmood Ahmed, Advocate-on-Record for
Respondent No. 1.

MUSLIM COMMERCIAL BANK LIMITED

VS

MUHAMMAD ANWAR MANDOKHEL and others

Law: Industrial Relations Act, 2012

Section: 2(xxxxii),53,54

Law: Balochistan Industrial Relations Act, 2010

Section: 52(2),52(4),55(3)

(a) Jurisdiction--- ----Question of jurisdiction of the court or a judicial forum assumes paramount importance as the foremost and pivotal consideration---It defines which court is competent to handle a case, where it should be heard, and what types of cases it can address---Such determination is the cornerstone of a fair legal process, ensuring that cases proceed efficiently, prevent delays, and maintain clarity. (b) Industrial Relations Act (X of 2012)--- ----Ss. 2(xxxii), 53 & 54 --- Balochistan Industrial Relations Act (XIV of 2010), Ss. 52(4) & 55(3) [since repealed]---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 141---Trans-provincial establishment---Industrial dispute related to trans-provincial employer---Provincial Labour Court, jurisdiction of---It is not the nature of the dispute, particularly, unfair labour practice, which confers jurisdiction on one or the other forum but it is the status of the employer or the group of employers, which would determine the jurisdiction of the Provincial Labour Court and that of the National Industrial Relations Commission ("NIRC")---Once it is established through any means that the employer or group of employers has an establishment, group of establishments, industry, having its branches in more than one Provinces, then the jurisdiction of the NIRC would be exclusive in nature and of overriding and superimposing effects over the Provincial Labour Court for resolving industrial disputes, including unfair labor practices, etc., related to such employers with establishments, branches, or industrial units in multiple provinces---Therefore, in such like cases recourse has to be made by the aggrieved party to the NIRC and not to the Provincial Labour Court---Furthermore Article 141 of the Constitution makes it abundantly clear that the Parliament has extra-territorial authority to legislate, but the Provincial Legislature has no legislative competence to legislate a law regulating the establishments and industries functioning at the trans-provincial level---Balochistan Industrial Relations Act, 2010 does invest the Provincial Labour Court with the authority to adjudicate upon the matters relating to the trans-provincial…
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