Law: Industrial Relations Ordinance, (XXIII of 1969)

Section: 34, 2

(a) Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969 ----S. 34 [as amended by Industrial Relations (Amendment) Ordinance (XIX of 1970)]-Employee praying for punitive action against employer for illegal termination of his service-Exact nature of his duties neither disclosed nor established to show such employee to be "workman"-Application, in circumstances, dismissed. (b) Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969)------- -----S. 2(ix) and (xix)-"Establishment" or "industry"-Individual employer- Cannot be regarded as either an establishment or an industry. (c) Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969)------ ----S. 34 [as amended by Industrial Relations (Amendment) Ordinance (XIX of 1970)] and West Pakistan Industrial and Commercial Employ ment (Standing Orders) Ordinance (VI of 1968), S. O. 18 -Termination of service-Remedy open to workman-Petition under S. O. 18, West Pakistan Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance, 1968 and not an application under S. 34, Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969.   DECISION    This application has been filed by the above-named petitioner under section 34 of the Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969. In it, it has been alleged that the respondent i.e., Rana Allah Dad, Managing Director, Ittehad Publications Limited, Kohstan Lahore has violated tie provisions of sections 15 and 47 of the afore-mentioned Ordinance. The petitioner has mentioned in his application that he was a photographer employed by the Management of the Daily Newspaper `Kohistan' in Multan. In his application the petitioner has asserted that he is an active member of the Kohistan Employees Union (Regd.) Multan. That Union addressed a demand notice on the date 14th December 1970, to the respondent. Rana Allah Dad, Managing Director, Ittehad Publications Limited, Kohistan, Lahore, who is also the Managing Director of the Daily Kohistan, Multan, requesting the respondent to conduct negotiations with the above-mentioned Union with a view to settling certain industrial disputes. The respondent, however, did not pay any attention to the demand notice of the petitioner's Union…