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Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969)-- --S.25-A--Grievance petition against interpretation of memo- Maintainability of--Workman claiming admissibility of Dearness Allowance sanctioned for Public Sector employees vide Finance Ministry Memo dated 17-6-1982 on basis of Settlement already expired--Matter involving interpretation of Finance Ministry's Memo and not of any right guaranteed under law or Settlement--Grievance petition, in circumstances, held, was not maintainable. 1983 P L C 1023 ref P L D 1966 Dacca 107 and 156 rel. Khalid M.Ishaque for Appellant. Mirza Muhammad Kazim for Respondents Nos.2 and 3. Date of hearing: 19th July, 1987. . DECISION This is an appeal filed by Messrs Pakistan Steel Mills Corporation, Karachi, against an impugned order, dated 9-9-1986, passed by Sind Labour Court No.IV, Karachi, who had allowed the grievance petition of the respondent under section 25-A, I.R.O. 1969. 2. Brief facts of the case are that with effect from 12-3-1976, the respondent was a permanent workman of the appellant-Corporation in the public sector and that on 7-7-1982, the appellant-Corporation and the then Collective Bargaining Agent i.e. Pakistan Steel Labour Union (respondent No.3 herein) had arrived at a settlement, which enter. alia provided in clause 76 that monetary benefits granted by the Government from time to time will be allowed to the employees of Pakistan Steel in accordance with the directions and explanations issued by the Government'. That earlier settlement between the appellant-Corporation and Pakistan Steel Progressive Workers Union, i.e. respondent No.2 herein was effective from 5-1-1980 for a period of two years but the new pay scales and fringe benefits allowed thereunder were applicable with effect from 5-7-1979. Further, the case of the respondent workmen was that on 17-6-1982, the Government of Pakistan in the Finance, issued 4n Office Memorandum notifying .the Presidential Order of sanction of an Additional Dearness Allowance of not less than Rs.50 and not more then Rs.200 to the employees of public sector Corporation and by virtue of Clause (3) of the said Office Memorandum, it was provided, as under. "In the case of those…

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