OLYMPIA TEXTILE MILLS WORKERS' UNION, DACCA AND 6 Other vs OLYMPIA — 1970 PLC 824

Citation: 1970 PLC 824

Court: Labour Court

Year: 1970

Decision Date: 1970-05-06

Parties: OLYMPIA TEXTILE MILLS WORKERS' UNION, DACCA AND 6 Other vs OLYMPIA TEXTILE MILLS LTD., DACCA AND 7 OTHERS

Headnotes

Case cited as 1970 PLC 824

Judgment Text

Court Name: Labour Court Judge(s): Muhammad Karim, S. A. Hakem, Nurul Islam Khan Title:OLYMPIA TEXTILE MILLS WORKERS' UNION, DACCA AND 6 Other vs OLYMPIA TEXTILE MILLS LTD., DACCA AND 7 OTHERS Case No.: Case No. 21 of 1970 Date of Judgment:1970-05-06 Reported As: 1970 PLC 824 Result: reference made Judgment ORDER MD. NURUL ISLAM KHAN (CHAIRMAN).-This is a reference under section 40 of the East Pakistan Labour Disputes Act, 1965 for adjudication of the industrial dispute between Olympia Textile Mills and other textile mills of East Pakistan, and the correspond--ing Trade Unions of textile mills' workers. In two other separate applications I have made 9ertain observations. Now the second party employers have approached this Court for getting an order regarding the maintainability of the reference. While the employers' side was heard, the employees' side was found absent. We have heard the arguments of the learned counsel for the second party who submitted that the reference commenced on 22-10-1969 in this Court, before the Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969 came into existence and as such, a reference like this is saved under section 67(2)(6) of the Industrial Relation` Ordinance as having commenced and merged with any reference made under section 32 of the Industrial Relations Ordinance. He argued that the' circumstances leading to this reference need not be enquired into, but the reference as it is, should be considered .to be a reference which is proceeding in the Court.…

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