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--- Allowance--"Mileage allowance"---- and "overtime wages"--Distinction--Mileage allowance is allowed in lieu of T.A. whereas overtime wages are paid for duty given beyond fixed duty hours. (b) Pakistan Railways Personnel Manual, Vo1.I-- ---R.5(d) & (g)--Allowance covered by R.5(d) is mileage allowance calculated at the rate of miles travelled and allowed in lieu of overtime--Railway employees covered by said rule, held, could not claim overtime wages besides mileage allowance--Engine drivers give eight hours duty and since engines are changed alongwith drivers they do not give duty beyond eight hours under normal circumstances--Provisions of Cl.(g) of R.5 become applicable if engine fails and failure is not due to any fault of driver and thus they can claim 1/8of one day's pay for every extra hour spent by them. JUDGMENT The two appeals captioned above emerge from the decisions dated 30-8-1988 recorded by the learned Presiding Officer, Punjab Labour Court No.6, Rawalpindi, whereby the grievance petitions of the appellants of both the appeals were dismissed. Since common questions of fact and law are involved in both the appeals, they are being disposed of together through this single judgment. 2. Some of the appellants `are A.C.C. attendants and some are assistant A.C.C. attendants. They travel with air-conditioned coaches and are paid mileage allowance. There was no limit about the quantum of mileage allowance before 1983 but a notification was issued on 29-8-1983, copy of which is Ex.R-1, according to which, the rate of mileage allowance was increased from Rs.4.50 to. Rs.11.00 per hundred miles. But it was provided that the allowance could be allowed upto a total amount of Rs.1,200 and not beyond that. This actuated the appellants to bring grievance petitions. The appellants in the first mentioned appeal asserted in their grievance petition that before 1-7-1983 they were paid mileage allowance as well as overtime, but thereafter mileage allowance/overtime was being paid upto Rs.1,200, with the result that every month Rs.40 to Rs.700 were being deducted. So far as the grievance petition brought by Karamat Ullah, appellant, is concerned, it is not'…

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