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(a) Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969)-- ---Ss.2(VII) & 25-A--Grievance petition against employer--Employer a Corporate Body--Reply statement signed by a person neither concerned with administrative affairs nor authorised by corporate body to sign same--Reply statement having been signed by in competent person, held, had not been filed. (b) West Pakistan Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance (VI of 1968)-- --S.O. 12(3)--Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969) Ss.25-A & 38(3)--Termination of service--No explicit reasons given in termination letter--Impugned order, in circumstances, held, rightly treated as legally not sustainable and order of Labour Court setting it aside and awarding re-instatement to workman concerned with full back benefits was upheld by Appellate Tribunal. 1985 P L C 23 and 424 and 1984 P L C 792 rel. Samiullah Khan for Appellant. S.P. Lodhi for Respondent. Date of hearing: 19th March, 1987. DECISION This is an appeal filed by the appellants, Messrs Cotton Export Corporation of Pakistan (Private) Limited, Karachi, against an impugned order, dated 23-11-1986, passed by the Sind Labour Court No. V, Karachi, who had allowed the grievance petition of the respondent namely, Noor Muhammad Naeem, filed under section 25-A, I.R.O., 1969. 2. Brief facts of the case are that the respondent was an employee of the Cotton Trading Corporation of Pakistan Limited since 1976 and subsequently this corporation was dissolved and all its administration etc. work was taken over by the present appellant Corporation, namely Messrs Export Corporation of Pakistan Limited, therefore, the employees released from the Cotton Trading Corporation most of them, got fresh appointments in the present appellant Corporation. Thereby, the respondent, also got fresh appointment on 27-12-1984 and was posted as Assistant Manager (Cashier) in the Cash and Bank Section of the appellant Corporation. The case of the respondent further was that -on 15-7-1985 services were all of a sudden dispensed with by the appellant Corporation and being aggrieved with this illegal termination of his services, he filed a grievance petition under…

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