MUHAMMAD RAFIQ vs MESSRS HAROON INDUSTRIES LTD., KARACHI — 1972 PLC 380

Citation: 1972 PLC 380

Court: Labour Court

Year: 1971

Decision Date: 1971-08-06

Parties: MUHAMMAD RAFIQ vs MESSRS HAROON INDUSTRIES LTD., KARACHI

Headnotes

Case cited as 1972 PLC 380

Judgment Text

Court Name: Labour Court Judge(s): Kasam Usman Kandawala, F. A. Khan, Hidayat Hussain Title: MUHAMMAD RAFIQ vs MESSRS HAROON INDUSTRIES LTD., KARACHI Case No.: Applications Nos. 19 and 55 of 1971 Date of Judgment:1971-08-06 Reported As: 1972 PLC 380 Result: N/A Judgment ORDER HIDAYAT HUSSAIN (CHAIRMAN).-Applicant Muhammad Rafiq, General Secretary of the Haroon Industries Employees Union who are the Collective Bargaining Agent in the respondent Establishment, has filed an application under section 34 of the industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969, against the alleged illegal lock-out resorted to by the respondent in the garb of terminating the services of 98 workers. Through this application under section 45 of the Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969, the applicant wants me to prohibit the continuance of the lock-out. Mr. Mohammad Majeed Jilani appears for the applicant. His contentions are as follows :- (a) The termination of the services of 98 workers is merely a cloak to cover the illegal at of rock-out. (b) If the respondent-Management felt that some readjust--ment in the number of workers was required on account of changes in the Import Policy of the Government, the respondent- Management should have taken recourse to the procedure laid down in the Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969. (c) The hot haste in which the services of these workers were terminated shows male fide intention. Mr. Hafeez for the respondent-Management replies as follows :- (a) The retrenchment was…

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