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(a) Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969)--------Ss. 2(xxviii) & 25-A---West Pakistan Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance (VI of 1968), S.2(i)---Workman--- Determination--- Grievance petition---Maintainability---Employee who initially was appointed as Cashier in Bank, was promoted as Assistant Manager---Employee was dismissed from service after issuing him show­ cause notice, but without conducting any proper enquiry and without providing him opportunity of hearing on allegation that he disclosed a secret password or code word to his colleague who misused same---Grievance petition filed by employee against his dismissal was resisted by employer contending that employee being not workman, his grievance petition filed before Labour Court was not maintainable---Validity---Employee though was designated as Officer B-Grade and he was drawing Rs.13,200 per month as salary. but he was not authorised to sign any memorandum or letter and same must be got co-signed by Manager of Bank or any other officer of A-Grade---Employee had no managerial or administrative functions to perform as an Officer and was only symbolically known as an Officer of Bank, without having any powers of an officer as was known or understood in common parlance---Employee was provided a table and a chair in office and could use only a -telephone extension, having no independent telephone of his own---Quantum of salary of employee mattered a little and was not materially in keeping with parameters of an Officer---Employee though was designated as Officer, but was doing only clerical or manual work and was, by all standards of Bank, being treated as subordinate official---Employee, in circumstances, being a workman, was entitled to invoke aid of Labour laws by having access to Labour Court---Grievance petition filed by employee against his dismissal from service before Labour Court was maintainable. 1979 SCMR 304 ref. (b) Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969)--- ----S.25-A---West Pakistan Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance (VI of 1968), S. O. 15---Dismissal of employee---Employee who was initially appointed as Cashier in…

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