Law:

Section:

Payment of Wages Act (IV of 1936)-- -- S. 15-Jurisdiction of Authority-Workers of Railway seeking redress regarding fixation of pay in national pay scales according to rules and for payment of due emoluments-Petition, held, entertainable by Autho­rity. Shaukat Ali and others v. Islamic Republic of Pakistan through the General Manager, North-Western Railway, Lahore 1960 P L C 59 rel. Muhammad Latif with Gulzar Ahmad, Alvi for Appellant. Abdul Ghafoor for Respondents. ORDER An appeal has been filed on behalf of the Divisional Superintendent, Pakistan Railway, Multan Cantonment against the judgment dated 5th June 1974 of the learned Authority set up under the Payment of Wages Act, 1931, whereby the respondents who are mates of Pakistan Western Railway, Engineering Branch were awarded wages of Rs. 264 each allegedly deducted from their pays from 1st March 1973 to December 1973 with the direction that they were entitled to 40% increase of their basic pay in the consolidated scales of pay enforced prior to 1st February 1972 to adjust them in the National pay scales enforced with effect from the said date. It has been maintained in the memorandum of appeal that the aforesaid directions passed by the learned Authority are against law and facts of the case and that the petitions made by the respondents to the learned Lower Court were not competent for want of jurisdiction. In view the objections taken by the appellant the respondents petitioners before the learned Authority the following issues were framed at the Trial Stage. (1) Whether the pay scale No. 1 of the petitioner is equivalent to the N. S. P. No. 2 and accordingly if they are entitled to increase of 40% or 30% of the pays already drawn by them. (2) in the course of the proceedings one more issue was adopted regard­ing the maintainability of the petition at the request of the appellant vide order dated 5th April 1974. 2. Prior to the enforcement of National pay scales the respondents as gang mates in Pakistan Western Railway, Multan Division, were drawing their consolidated pay in the pay scale of Rs. 70-1--85+Rs. 7.50 per month while pay scale of Keymen and Gangmen Junior to them was Rs. 70-1-85 plus Rs. 5…

Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/digixyei/sldsystempk.com/view/master-layout/view_case.php on line 492