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Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969)-- ---Ss.25-A & 38(3)--West Pakistan Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance (VI of 1968), Ss.1(4)(b) & 2(i)--Grievance petition against termination of service--Petitioner a Commercial Officer on salary of Rs.3,000 p.m.--Duties including issuance of interview letters for posts of Administrative Officer and Accounts Officer and Office Orders regulating office timings and himself issuing show-cause notice and warning letters to staff members of establishment--Reforming managerial and administrative work hence not a workman--Establishment not employing 20 or more workmen during 12 months preceding date of impugned termination order--Grievance petition, in circumstances, held, rightly dismissed as not maintainable. Appellant in person. S. Zamirul Hassan for Respondent No.1. Date of hearing: 21st November, 1984. ORDER The instant appeal is directed against the order of the Sind Labour Court No.II at Karachi who, on 19-11-1983, dismissed the grievance application of the appellant, Muhammad Jamal. 2. The brief facts are that appellant was appointed by respondent No.1, Messrs Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah Textile Mills Ltd., Karachi, on 12-5-1982, as a Commercial Officer on a monthly salary of Rs. 3,000. The appellant was assigned such office and outdoor duties from time to time as consisted of correspondence, accounting matters, staff pay rolls, contacts with banks, cashing litigating matters and miscellaneous other matters. The respondents Nos. 2 and 3 also assigned work to him with a further remuneration of Rs.1,000 per month. The two respondents Nos. 2 and 3 did not appear and they were shown as ex parte. On 22-11-1982, the services of the appellant were terminated by respondent No.1 and' he was told not to come from 23-11-1982. 3. A grievance petition was filed in which the evidence of appellant was adduced and so also the evidence of respondent No.1 was adduced. 4. The first respondent filed the legal objections and the reply statement. Legal objections were to the effect that the appellant was not a workman as he did not perform any skilled, unskilled, manual or clerical work and was…

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