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Industrial dispute--- ---- Pay scale---Revision---Employees were appointed fitters in Pay Group V through letter stating terms and conditions of appointment which conditions were duly accepted by employees---Employees demanded that they be promoted to Pay Group VI---Anomaly Committee was constituted to examine claims of employees, and Anomaly Committee, after due deliberation had given its report in which employees were not found entitled to be promoted to Pay Group VI in view of their lack of required educational qualifications and experience---No question was of any mala fides or injustice discernible even remotely on part of employers---Employees, in circumstances were rightly denied Pay Group VI as they were not qualified for the same at relevant time. Gohar Iqbal for Appellants. Abdus Samad for Respondents. Date of hearing: 16th October, 1994. DECISION These seven appeals, six out of which are disposed of by a common order, call in question the order of the Labour Court NOW at Karachi, dismissing the petitions under section 25-A of the I.R.O. These arose in the following circumstances:- The petitioners were appointed as fitters sometimes in 1981 in Pay Group V which carries the scale Rs.375--25--700. There were representations about their scale and Anomaly Committee had been appointed. The grievance of the petitioners remained un-redressed though some of their colleagues were promoted to Pay Group VI with retrospective effect. The petitioners had made further representations but the same came to be turned down. They had therefore sent grievance notices and later filed petitions before the Labour Court. The prayer was that they be granted Pay Scale No. VI from the day of their appointment. 2. The petitions came to be resisted on different grounds including the bar of limitation and maintainability under the Scheme of section 25-A, I.R.O. It reads as follows:- "A worker may bring his grievance in respect of any right guaranteed or secured to him by or under any law or any award or settlement for the time being in force to the notice of his employer in writing, either himself or through his shop steward or collective bargaining agent within three months of…

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