Law: Industrial Relations Ordinance, (XXIII of 1969)

Section: 47(2)

Law: Constitution of Pakistan 1973

Section: 185(3)

Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969) S-47(2) read with constitution of Pakistan (1973) , Art .185 (3)-- Decisio8aigs of domestic Tribunal-Contention that Labour Court or High Court could not sit in appeal over findings '' recorded by domestic Tribunal appearing to be well founded-High Court also failing to take notice of law laid down by Supreme Court on point-Case, held, fit for grant of leave to appeal. Noor Ahmad, Advocate           Date of hearing : 10th October 1979.                                                                                                               ORDER G. SAFDAR SHAH, J.--Briefly stated the relevant facts giving rise to this petition are as follows 2. The petitioners, who are a banking-Company, incorporated in England, has its main Office in Pakistan at Karachi and various branches at diverse places in the country. This case pertains to their Branch Office at Rawalpindi. The case of the petitioners is that as a measure of welfare of the staff, employed in their said Branch at Rawalpindi they have provided a canteen, the opening and closing hours of which were regulated by their Management that accordingly the closing hours of the said canteen were fixed at 7.30 p. m. on all week days, except Fridays and Saturdays when it was to close down at 6.30 p.m.; in the month of March, 1976, however, the Manager of the said Branch came to know that in contravention of the said arrangement the canteen was kept open till late hours of the night, and so by his written order, dated 7-3-1976, a copy of which was also displayed on the canteen Notice Board, the Manager of the Branch directed that the canteen must close down at the appointed hour of 7-30 p.m. ; that on 28-3-1976, a counter notice under the signatures of respondent No. 3 appeared on the staff canteen Notice Board to the e0'ect that the canteen…