WORKERS' UNION vs MESSERS TAJ RESTAURANT, KARACHI — 1972 PLC 419

Citation: 1972 PLC 419

Court: Labour Court

Year: 1971

Decision Date: 1971-12-07

Parties: WORKERS' UNION vs MESSERS TAJ RESTAURANT, KARACHI

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Case cited as 1972 PLC 419

Judgment Text

Court Name: Labour Court Judge(s): Shoukat Ali A. Nanji, Hidayat Hussain Title: WORKERS' UNION vs MESSERS TAJ RESTAURANT, KARACHI Case No.: Application No. 56 of 1970 Date of Judgment:1971-12-07 Reported As: 1972 PLC 419 Result: N/A Judgment ORDER HIDAYAT HUSSAIN (CHAIRMAN).-----The applicant-Union has filed an application under section 34 of the I. R. O., 1969, for the enforcement of the award given by the Second Sind Labour Court, Karachi in Industrial Dispute No. 4/71 under section 32 of I. R. O. According to the applicants the respondents adopted tactics to do away with that award and to achieve that end they have resorted to illegal lock-out under the cloak of lay-of for a period of to and a half months. Through this application under section 45 of the I. R. O., 1969, therefore, the applicants pray that this lock-out may be declared illegal. A notice of this application was served on the respondents. Mr. Izzat Puri appears for them. Mr. Saeed Pasha Lodhi appears for the applicants and con--tends as follows :- (a) Lay-of cannot be resorted to by the hotels. (b) No cause whatsoever has been shown for laying-of the workers. (c) The Management did not fulful the terms of the award and when the workers pressed for its enforcement they were denied work under the cloak of lay-of. Mr. Izzat Puri replies as follows :- (a) Most of the office-bearers of the Union have left the Management and, therefore, the Union is not properly consti--tuted. (b) This is a case of lay-of for a…

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