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West Pakistan Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance (VI of 1968)- -- S. O. 12(6) [as amended in 1972]-Gratuity-Payment of gratuity at enhanced rate of 20 days' wages for every completed year of service ­Held, relates to date of first appointment of workman and not date of amendment of provision. Ghulam Mohiuddin, Manager for Appellant. Capt. A. D. Baluch, Legal Adviser for Respondent. DECISION This is an appeal filed on behalf of the Management hereinafter mention­ed as the appellant of Allah Wasaya Textile and Finishing Mills Limited, Multan hereinafter mentioned as appellant against the order dated 12th February 1973, passed by the learned Junior Labour Court, Multan directing the payment of gratuity alongwith any other benefits permissible under the law to the respondents namely, Noor Muhammad, Allah Dad, Muhammad Boota, Muzafar Khan, Abdul Aziz and Atta Muhammad. The appellant included Muhammad Sadiq as respondent No. 7 in fructuously as his name does not accrue in the impugned order as one of the petitioners. The respon­dents resigned from their jobs in the month of November and December 1972, and claimed their gratuities from the date of their first appointment under Order 12 (5) and (6) of the West Pakistan Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) (Amended) Ordinance, 1972. The learned lower Court approved the claim of the respondent under the impugned order. In the present appeal the mainstay of the appellant is that the respon­dents were not eligible to the payment of gratuities with effect from the dates of their first appointment at the enhanced rate…

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