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Industrial dispute-- -- Annual increment-Falls due only on due date, i.e. after completion of 12 months' service-Rate of increment enhanced by Award of Labour Court-Neither demand nor award indicating date from which such increment was payable-Award interpreted to mean that increment was payable after award only on due date to employees-Year ending on 30th June for purposes of incre­ment-Enhanced increment, in circumstances, held, payable from 1st July every year and not from date of award-Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969), S. 50. Shafiq Qureshi for Applicant. Masood Mirza for Respondent. Date of hearing : 29th July, 1979. ORDER This is an application by the Employees' Union under section 50 of the Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969, for the interpretation of the Award given by the learned Sind Labour Court No. III, as modified by this Tribunal. 2. The Award in question deals with 16 demands made by the applicant Union. We are, however, in these proceedings concerned with only 3 of the demands, namely :-(1) payment of Rs. 10 to each worker is annual increment ; (2) arrears of increase in waves of Rs. 5 per month per worker for the years 1974, 1975 and 1975 ; and (3) money compensa­tion in lieu of non-supply of uniforms to workmen entitled to such uniforms. 3. The learned Labour Court did not allow the demand for extra uniforms, but directed that the existing practice should continue. The decision on this demand was not challenged by any party. The learned Labour Court. however, allowed an increase in wages of Rs. 30 per workman per month and additionally allowed an annual increment of Rs. 10 per worker. The Tribunal on appeal disallowed the increase in wages but confirmed the annual increment of Rs. 10. Both the learned Labour Court and the Tribunal allowed the demand of increase of Rs. 5 per month in wages to each worker as per last settlement, which was signed on 27th January, 1974. 4. I have heard Mr. Shafiq Qureshi for the applicant and Mr. Masood Mirza for the respondent. Mr. Masood Mirza stated that uniforms are being supplied to entitled workmen according to the established practice. He, 'however, conceded that it is possible that during a…

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