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Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969)--- ----S. 25-A---West Pakistan Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance (VI of 1968), S. 1(4)(a). & S.O. 12---Termination of service---Grievance petition filed by employees against their termination was dismissed by Labour Court holding that same was not maintainable as employer corporation which was registered under Shops and Establishments Ordinance, 1965 employed less than twenty persons and in circumstances, employer Corporation was not governed by Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969 and West Pakistan Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance, 1968---Employees having failed to prove that employer Corporation employed twenty or more workers, grievance petition filed by them were rightly held not maintainable. DECISION These are two appeals from orders of Fifth Sindh Labour Court, Karachi, dismissing their grievance petitions under section 25-A of the I.R.O. since both the appeals are of the drivers of the respondent Corporation whose services were terminated for similar reasons. They are being heard together. Appellants Zaheeruddin and Mumtaz Hussain are both called absent. Their representative Mr. Abdul Majeed is also absent due to illness as intimated by him but these cases were fixed today as the only set of cases to be heard by this Court as either the Advocate or representative had been getting the cases adjourned on a number of previous hearings and the cases could not, therefore, proceed on all those hedarings. These cases are therefore being decided on merits instead of adjourning them again. 2. The facts in brief are that the appellants' grievance petitions for re­instatement in service were dismissed by the Fifth Sindh Labour Court, Karachi, on the ground that the petitions under section 25-A of the I.R.O. were not maintainable since their employers Mitsubishi Corporation Office in Karachi was registered under the Shops and Establishments Ordinance and since they employed less than 20 persons they were not governed by the I.R.O. and the West Pakistan Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance (VI of 1968). . 3.…

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