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(a) Industrial Relations Oir6inance (XXIII of 1969)-------Ss. 1(3)(c), 25-A & 38---Service Tribunals Act (LXX of 1973), S.2-A--­Transfer---Grievance petition---Competency---Petitioners serving in Pakistan International Airlines were husband and wife and had filed grievance petition before Labour Court against orders of their transfer from one place of service to another ---Petitioner/husband who belonged to pay group No.5 and wife to that of No.4 could not invoke aid of Labour laws by resorting to Labour Court by virtue of provisions of S.1(3)(i) of Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969 and their remedy lay before Service Tribunal---Mere allegation of malice, mala fides or political motives attributed to Employer Corporation, would be of no help to petitioners---Grievance petition filed by petitioners against their transfer before Labour Court, was not competent, in circumstances. (b) Industrial dispute--- ---- Transfer of employee---Prerogative of employer was to transfer an employee at any place within permissible circle---Employees who had stuck to one place of working for a long time must not grudge their shifting from that place of working. Ch. M. Ikram Zahid for Appellants. Shoaib Saeed for Respondents. JUDGMENT By a short judgment, that I propose to deliver, I shall be disposing of both the above-captioned appeals, having been preferred by the wife and the husband, both being employees of the P. I. A., after they have failed to secure the requisite relief from the Labour Court, Faisalabad. 2. Both of them had filed grievance petitions, under section 25-A of the Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969, seeking rescission of the orders of their transfer, having been rendered by the Authorities, on 25-2-1998. 3. Mrs. Shakira belongs to Pay Group No.4 and Mr. A.B. Tarique to Pay Group No.5. Section 1(3)(c) of the Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969, envisages exclusion of provisions of the Ordinance, respecting the employees, who are members of the Security Staff of the P.I.A., or who are drawing wages in Pay Group No.5, and above. Thus Mr. A.B. Tarique could not invoke the aid of the Labour Laws, by resorting to a Labour Court, and the remedy lay in his…

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