Law: Industrial Relations Ordinance, (XXIII of 1969)

Section: 2 (viii) (c) (xxiv), 34

(a) Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969) S. 2 (viii) (c)-"Employer"-Words "employ" and "appoint" prac tically synonymous and interchangeable-Appointing authority in Government Department though not Head of Department-Included in definition of "employer". (b) Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969) Ss. 2 (xxiv) & 34 read with Industrial Relations (Sind) Rules, 1973, r. 7-Agreement arrived at between parties, workers and employer, not through conciliation neither drawn up in prescribed form nor copies sent to prescribed authorities-Cannot be treated as settlement enforceable under S. 34. Williamsons & Co. v. Workmen Union 1975 P L C 98 ; Kaikobad Pestanjee Kakalia v. Employees' Union 1975 P L C 198 and Ferozesons Ltd. v. Ferozesons Press Workers' Union 1975 P L C 377 rel. Date of hearing : 20th March, 1980.                                                                                                                                                   ORDER These 2 appeals, one by the General Secretary of the Agricultural Machinery Workshop Workers' Union, Tando Jam, and the second by the General Secretary of the Peoples Mazdoor Union, Agricultural Machinery, Narejo Workshop, are both directed against an award given by the learned 1st Sind Labour Court, on 7-6-1978, rejecting the claim made by the 2 Unions and the Peoples Agricultural Machinery Workers' Union, Larkana, whose appeal was summarily disposed of by this Tribunal, vide order, dated 20-2-1980, for the enforcement of an agreement, entered into on 15-7-1977, regarding the fixation of wages of the workers in the Agricultural Engineering Workshops in accordance with the Schedule of Wages Rates, 1979. As both the appeals involve the same issues, they have been heard…