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Payment of Wages Act (IV of 1936)--- ----Ss. 15(2) & 17---Claim for wages for the work done on holidays---Authority under the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 dismissed petitioners' claim on the ground that petition for the same was hopelessly time-barred and that no application for condonation of delay had been filed---Appeal against the same was dismissed by Labour Court---Validity---Petition for claiming wages filed before Authority being barred by time and no application for condonation of delay having been moved, order of Labour Court regarding in competency of appeal was unexceptionable which called for non-interference in revisional jurisdiction. Divisional Superintendent, P.W.R., Multan v. Abdul Khaliq 1984 SCMR 1311 rel. N. Naz, Representative for Petitioners. Date of hearing: 18th October, 1992. JUDGMENT The petitioners have filed this revision petition to assail the validity of an order passed by the learned Punjab Labour Court No. 7, Gujranwala on 22-4-1992 whereby their appeal from an order passed by the Authority under the Payment of Wages Act, Gujrat on 28-2-1991 dismissing their petition for wages as being barred by time, was dismissed. 2. The petitioners are Sanitary Workers in the Municipal Committee, Gujrat. On 16-11-1989 they filed a petition before the Authority under the Payment of Wages Act, Gujrat under section 15(2) of tile Payment of Wages Act, 19.101, each claiming wages for the work done on eighty gazetted holidays at the rate of Rs.50 per day during the period 1981-85. This petition was opposed by the respondent inter alia on the ground that the same was barred by time, having been presented after the expiry of the period of three years from the date on which the payment of the wages was allegedly due to be made. 3. The Authority under the Payment of Wages Act observing that the petition was hopelessly barred by time and no application had been filed by the petitioners for condonation of delay, dismissed the same. 4. Feeling aggrieved, the petitioners preferred an appeal before…

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