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Payment of Wages Act (IV of 1936)-- ---Ss. 5, 15 & 16--Consolidation of applications before Authority-­Requirements (i) persons claiming deducted wages should belong to same establishment and (ii) wage period should be same--Applicants belonging to same establishment and (iii) wage period involved being end of calendar month in all cases--Applications of 3 applicants, in circumstances, held, rightly consolidated by Authority-Authority allowing one time's compensation--Labour Court in appeal disallowing compensation--Appellate Tribunal in revision modifying order of Labour Court allowing Rs.10 as compensation Revision Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of â-ž1969), S. 38(3-a). Wasim Ahmed Bokhari for Petitioner. Saifullah Khan for Respondent. Date of hearing: 5th August, 1984. JUDGMENT The above captioned revision gives information that the order, dated 21-3-1984 passed by the Presiding Officer, Punjab Labour Court No-2, Lahore, in his appellate jurisdiction under section 17 of the Payment of Wages Act, is null, void and without jurisdiction. 2. The petitioner and two others brought applications under section 15 to the Authority under the Payment Wages Act for the recovery of deducted wages. The Authority consolidated .the three applications and disposed them of by a single order allowing deducted wages. So far as the petitioner is concerned, he was allowed one time's compensation also. On appeal by the respondent the learned lower appellate Court disallowed one time's compensation to the petitioner, hence this revision. 3. The provision of consolidating various petitions is given in section 16. There are two requirements for the application of the section. One is that the persons claiming deducted wages should belong to the same establishment and the other is that the wage-period should be the same. It these conditions are fulfilled and the said persons are belonging to the same unpaid group section 16 applies. The other provision of section 16 is…

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