Case Details

Citation(s)
1994 SLG 503 1994 SLD 503 1994 PLC 72
Labour Appellate Tribunal, Sindh
Appeal No. KAR-595 of 1992, decision dated: 15-09-1993.
AGHA ALI HYDER, APPELLATE TRIBUNAL
Ch. Muhammad Ashraf Khan for Appellant, M. Rafat Osmani for
Respondents.

COTTON EXPORT CORPORATION PEOPLE EMPLOYEES UNION OF PAKISTAN, KARACHI

VS

M/s. COTTON EXPORT CORPORATION OF PAKISTAN LTD., KARACHI

Law:

Section:

Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969)Ss. 32(1A) & 44West Pakistan Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance (VI of 1968), S.O. 10CBonusPayment of­Employees' Union served on employers a `Charter of Demands' demanding bonus at rate of four gross salaries in addition to bonus under S.O. 10C of Ordinance of 1968Negotiations, having failed, Union gave strike notice­Matter was taken before Conciliator, but with no effectActivities of employers being in nature of State monopoly, question of matching demands and grants with comparable concerns, did not arise at allRecord showed that in preceding year, Corporation had suffered a loss in its businessSettlement had already been arrived at between parties according to which no further demand of any financial implication could be raised during subsistence of that settlementDemand of payment of additional bonus raised during subsistence of settlement between parties was rightly refused by employers. Employees' Union v. Holy Family Hospital and another 1975 PLC 118 ref. DECISION This appeal from the order of the Labour Court No. III, Karachi, arises in the following circumstances.. 2. The appellants in the capacity of the `C.BA.' of the respondent establishment served a `Charter of Demands' demanding bonus at the rate of four gross salaries, in addition to bonus under Standing Order. 10C of the Ordinance, 1968 vide notice, dated 981983. Negotiations followed and failed with the result that there was a Strike Notice, dated 2181983. The dispute was taken before the Conciliator but fizzled out. It was thereafter that the appellant union had filed a petition before the Labour Court under section 32(1A) of the I.R.O. 3. In the statement of claim it was stated that the respondents were having a monopoly in their line, trading in, precuring, selling and exporting cotton and had announced only two months gross wages and two months basic wages by way of bonus and that too without consulting the appellant union. 4. In the Reply Statement filed on behalf of the respondent, it was stated that on the direction of the Federal Government the respondent had given them other substantial benefits even…
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