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Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969)--- ----S. 25-A---Grievance notice and grievance petition---Limitation---Limitation starts from date of accrual of cause of grievance---Railway employee claiming encashment of un-availed LPR---Petition resisted on grounds of being time ­barred from date of retirement order---Grievance, in circumstances, held, would start from date of refusal of claim and not from date of retirement order. Irfan Qadir for Appellants. Respondents in person. Date of hearing: 28th October, 1986. JUDGMENT The two appeals captioned' above challenge the decisions dated 18-3-1986 recorded by the learned Presiding Officer, Punjab Labour Court No.5, Faisalabad, whereby the appellants have been directed to pay to the respondents 180 days salary besides 55% running allowance in lieu of L.P.R. 2. Admittedly, the respondents did not avail of L.P.R. and applied for the payment of 180 days salary. It has been argued that the respondent did not opt for the Revised Leave Rules of 1980. It has not been shown either that Revised Leave Rules were duly notified in Pakistan Railways Gazette or that they were got noted down by the respondents. Rules revised by some competent authority of the appellant, so could come to the knowledge of the respondents if they had been published in Pakistan Railways Gazette or were separately brought to the notice of the respondent. Apart from it, it is the duty of the employer to invite options, where giving of the same is necessary according to the rules. No evidence has been pointed out that it was done by the appellants. So, the respondents were not debarred from claiming salary for 180 days in lieu of L.P.R 3. The other…

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