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1984 PLC 1434

CHAIRMAN OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF PAKISTAN AND

Citation1984 PLC 1434
CourtLabour Appellate Tribunal
Case No.Appeals Nos, MN-118 and 119 of 1982
Date1982-04-24
Judge(s)Sardar Muhammad Abdul Ghafoor Khan Lodhi
ResultAppeal dismissed

ORDER

As question of facts and law involve in the two appeals captioned above are alike, they are being decided together through this single judgment.

2. Abdus Sattar was a Chaukidar and Kaloo a Mali. Both of them were shown to have been initially employed for 88 days on their applica tians and after gaps of 4 or 5 days again they were employed for further 88 days, up to the last when their services were finally terminated. Both of them challenged the order of their termination before the learned Lowe Court claiming to be permanent workman posted on permanent posts. Definition of workman is given in Standing Orders 1 clause 'b' which reads as under :- "A permanent workman is a workman who has been engaged on work of permanent nature likely to last for more than 9 months and ha satisfactorily completed a probationary period of three months in the same or another occupation in the industrial or commercial establishment including breaks due to sickness, accident, leave, lockout, strike (not an illegal lock-out or strike) or involuntarily closure of establishment."

' The representative appearing for the appellant union has admitted that the rule is the same but he says that the workers are residing at headquarte and if they take residence at the site, they will be put to great inconvenience, because after the completion of work at one place, they are made work at other places and they cannot keep their residence away from the headquarter. The appellant can claim that right only which has been guaranteed or secured by any law, award or settlement. Since the rule do not support their case, there is no right guaranteed to them. The petition, in these circumstances, was rightly dismissed by the learned lower Court. There is no force in the appeal, which is dismissed.

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