MUHAMMAD ZAFAR vs THE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION, LAHORE AND — 1970 PLC 332

Citation: 1970 PLC 332

Court: Industrial Appellate Tribunal

Year: 1970

Decision Date: 1970-01-05

Parties: MUHAMMAD ZAFAR vs THE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION, LAHORE AND ANOTHER

Headnotes

Case cited as 1970 PLC 332

Judgment Text

Court Name: Industrial Appellate Tribunal Judge(s): Inamullah Khan Title:MUHAMMAD ZAFAR vs THE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION, LAHORE AND ANOTHER Case No.: Appeal No. LHR-239 of 1969 Date of Judgment:1970-01-05 Reported As: 1970 PLC 332 Result: appeal is allowed Judgment ORDER This is an appeal against an award of the learned Chairman of the West Pakistan Industrial Court (Central Zone), Lahore, dated 24th October 1969. The facts giving rise to the present appeal briefly put are these. 2. The appellant was selected as a conductor on 26th February 1968. He was appointed as a conductor on probation for a period of three months. He was removed from, service on 5th June 1968, during the period of his probation. The appellant made an application before the learned Industrial Court was that even the services of a probationer could not be determined on the ground of unsatisfactory work and conduct without a show-cause notice. The learned Chairman relying on subsection (2) of section 12 of the West Pakistan , Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance, 1968 (hereinafter called the Standing Orders), came to the conclusion that no notice of show cause was necessary in the case of the appellant, who was only a probationer. 3. Subsection (2) of section 12 of the Standing Orders, reads as under:- "No temporary workman, whether monthly-rated, weekly---rated, daily-rated, or piece-rated, and no probationer or badli, shall be entitled to any notice or pay in lieu thereof,…

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