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West Pakistan Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance (vi or 1968) - --S. O. 13 -Retrenchment-Holders of Senior post recruited directly and not promoted from junior post-Not entitled to claim absorp­tion to lower post on abolition of his post-Machine operators retrenched-Some junior to retrenched persons who w--re promoted from packers reverted as packers-Retention of such persons as packers though junior to retrenched machine operators, held, not violative of S. O. 13. Tohir Ali v. Sind Rood Transport Corporation 1982 P L C 158 Tel. M. Rafiq Malik for Appellants. Qadir H. Sayeed for Respondent. Date of hearing : 29th August, 1982. DECISION These three appeals are directed against separate but materially identical decisions given by the learned Fourth Labour Court on 26th April, 1982, dismissing the grievance petition of the three appellants who had challenged their termination front service by the respondent company through separate grievance petitions. 2. The case of the appellants is that they have been working in the respondent company as machine operators since 4th April, 1972, though even previously, since 1969, they had bean working as machine operators under the contractor of the respondent company, when the contract system was in vogue. 1t is alleged that in February, 1981 a dispute arose between the office-bearers of the workers' union in the respondent establishment, against some of whom there were allegations that they were working in collusion with the management to the detriment of the workmen, and also that they had misappropriated the union's fund. It appears. that on 23rd February, 1981, a requisition letter/ notice was sent to the General Secretary of the Union for calling a meeting of the General Body of the Workers' Union, to consider the charge against the delinquent workmen. The notice is said to have been signed by the appellant Abdul Ghani and some other members of the Workers' Union. According to the appellant this action annoyed the management which abruptly terminated the services of the appellants by separate. but similar orders, dated 31st May, 1951, on the plea of retrenchment. Aggrieved by these orders the…

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