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Industrial Relations Ordinance (XXIII of 1969)--- ----S.50---Settlement, interpretation of---Settlement was arrived at between employers and employees' Union according to which basic salaries of permanent workers were increased in addition to allowances and facilities to such employees---Employee's union filed application before Tribunal for interpretation of certain clauses of settlement arrived at between the parties relating to increase in salaries and allowances and facilities---Interpretation sought for was to the effect as to whether increases announced by Government vide Gazette Notification, were to be paid to employees in addition to increases given in settlement arrived at between the parties--­Held, that increase announced by Government, was to be adjusted in increase as given by employers to employees in settlement arrived at between the parties. R.B. Industries v. Employees' Union PLD 1983 SC 15 ref. Ali Amjad for Applicants. Rehan Aqeel for Respondent. Date of hearing: 4th May, 1993. DECISION As late as 1985 the applicants had filed an application before this Tribunal under section 50 of the IRO for the interpretation of the clauses 1 to 6 of the Memorandum of Settlement arrived at between them and the respondents. The bone of contention between the parties was as to whether the increases announced vide Gazette Notification, dated July 27, 1985 were to be paid in addition to the increases given in the settelment, dated the 15th of October, 1984. 2. The concluding paragraph of the recital reads as under: "And whereas the parties held several meetings which were extended by mutual consent from time to time as a result of bilateral negotiations and collective bar 4 ping on the said Charter of Demands the Union and the Company have reached the following agreement taking into consideration the ~ e in the cost of living and all the demands and claims of the Union contained in the said Charter of Demands or brought for negotiations and discussions in the course of collective bargaining of the said Charter of Demands." 3. The first clause pertained to t1« increase in basic salaries wages. It was in the following words: "It is agreed that the basic…

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