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Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969)-------Ss. 25-A & 37---Grievance petition---Grant of selection grade--­Entitlement--- Thirty-three per cent. Assistants of Department were placed in selection grade BPS-15---Respondents were although entitled to that grade yet they were ignored for the simple reason that they were working in stores wing which did not find mention in relevant notification---Labour Court found respondents entitled to get the same selection grade to which their counterparts in other wings/sections of same set-up were found entitled to on basis of said notification---Validity---Respondents throughout had been laying claim to selection grade but without success---Dues which one deserved to get during service being cause of recurring nature, petitioner could not urge that respondents had come to Labour Court too late in the day, and that grievance notices, followed by grievance petition were barred by law of limitation---Respondents having lost all hopes and having met failure in their departmental representations and verbal requests opted to have recourse to Labour Court for requisite relief---Respondents' grievance, therefore, could not be treated as having become time-barred---Labour Court had, thus, committed no error and had not acted in indulgent manner in allowing grievance petition---Order of Labour Court allowing respondents' selection grade was maintained in circumstances. Muhammad Iqbal Khokhar for Appellant. Ch. M. Khalid Farooq for Respondents. Date of hearing: 6th November, 1997. JUDGMENT Learned Labour Court No. 1, Lahore, on 16-7-1997, accepted the grievance petition of the respondents, under section 25-A, Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969, filed against the Punjab Road Transport Corporation and the later has come up in appeal to this Court, challenging the soundness of the decision. 2. It is such a simple matter that one has not to labour a lot in arriving at a correct conclusion, particularly when a witness of the Corporation, appearing as R.W.1, in the lower Court, has testified largely in favour of the grievance-petitioners. By the Notification FD-PC-II/1-87, dated 27-7-1987 selection grade was allowed to 33%…

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