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Industrial dispute Retrenchment on account of re-organisation and redundancy of job or post--Workmen promoted from lower post to higher -post --Higher post becoming redundant-Workman has a right to be offered lower post from which promoted.                                                                                                                                                                           JUDGMENT Abdus Sattar, Ghulam Dastagir, Tas6eem Ahmad, Muhammad Aslam Rana and Syed Irtaza Hasan were at the relevant time working as Super visors in the Utility Stores Corporation of Pakistan Limited (hereinafter referred to as the Corporation). Out of them Muhammad Aslam Rana and Syed Irtaza Hasan were directly recruited as Supervisors while Abdus Sattar, Ghulam Dastagir and Tasneem Ahmad, respondents, were initially recruited as Assistant Salesmen but were subsequently promoted first as Salesmen and then as Supervisors. 2. Due to reorganization of the administrative set up of the Corporation, numerous posts of Supervisors were held in excess of staffing require ments of the Corporation and thus after retaining the services of the required number of supervisors on the basis of seniority, the services of junior most persons were retrenched by an order dated 24-2-1980. Thus, the services of the above-mentioned Supervisors being junior most were terminated by way of retrenchment. After serving grievance notices each of them filed separate petitions under section 25-A of the Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969 before Punjab Labour Court No. 1, Lahore. Since the questions of law and facts were common in all these petitions, they were consolidated and disposed of together by the Labour Court through impugned decision dated 21-9-1980. The Labour…