EMPLOYEES UNION vs ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION, LAHORE — 1971 PLC 383

Citation: 1971 PLC 383

Court: Labour Court

Year: 1970

Decision Date: 1970-12-31

Parties: EMPLOYEES UNION vs ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION, LAHORE

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Case cited as 1971 PLC 383

Judgment Text

Court Name: Labour Court Judge(s): Mahmood Ahmad Soofi, Major Salah-Ud-Din Galihar, Fazal Elahi Qurban Title: EMPLOYEES UNION vs ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION, LAHORE Case No.: Date of Judgment:- Reported As: 1971 PLC 383 Result: application is, dismissed Judgment DECISION MAHMOOD AHMAD SOOFI (CHAIRMAN).--This case was received back on the date 16-6-1970 from .the now defunct West Pakistan Labour Appellate Tribunal, Karachi (Camp Lahore) on the basis of appellate order of remand passed by Mr. Inamullah Khan, the then West Pakistan Labour Appellate Tribunal, on the date 9-5-1970. By that order Mr. Inamullah Khan accepted the appeal of the present petitioner, i.e., The Road Transport Corporation Employees' Union (Regd.) Friends Hotel, Dera Adda, Multan, against the order of this Labour Court dated 12-2-1970. The text of the impugned order of this Labour Court was worded as follows :- "This application is accompanied by a certificate of failure of conciliation proceedings issued to the parties by the Conciliation Officer under section 6(7) of the West Pakistan Industrial Disputes Ordinance, 1968. It is not maintainable in this Court inasmuch as the procedure prescribed in section 32 of the recently promulgated Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969 read with the provisions of subsection (2) of section 67 of the current Ordinance, is quite different from the procedure enjoyed by the above-mentioned Ordinance of 1968. A Labour Court now has no lawful jurisdiction for adjudicating and…

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