' The four appeals captioned above challenge the decision dated 7-5-1987 recorded by the learned Presiding Officer, Punjab Labour Court No, 5, Faisalabad, whereby the grievance petitions of the appellants were dismissed. Since common questions of fact and law are involved in all the four appeals, they are being disposed of together through this single judgment.
2. Muhammad Bashir and Ghulam Mohammad, appellants, were builders and the remaining two appellants were mates. The; were employed on work charged basis. The services of about seventeen employees were regularized on ad hoc basis vide order dated 14-7-1986 but the services of the appellants were terminated. Ghulam Mohammad, appellant was not absorbed in regular service on the ground that he was over-age being of the age of 49 years. Muhammad Bashir was not absorbed for the same reason. His age was 40 years at the time question of his absorption as permanent employee arose. The remaining two appellants were not absorbed on the ground that they did not hold the minimum qualification of being middle pass. No rule has been shown that for the post of mate or builder minimum qualification is middle. But, according to P.W.D. Code Chapter I sub-paragraph (7), a work charged employee can be terminated on ten days' notice. This is not the case of the appellants that without the service of ten days' notice their services were terminated. Since the appellants were employed in a department of the Government, they are Government servants and since there are Government Servants Efficiency and Discipline Rules, both the conditions given in Standing Order 1(4)(c) of the Standing Orders Ordinance, 1968 stand satisfied and the said Ordinance is not applicable. The appellants, therefore, were rightly dealt with under the Rules of the respondent for termination of their services on ten days' notice. The orders of termination, therefore, were quite legal and the appellants have no case.
Their petitions were thus rightly disallowed by the learned lower Court.
3. As a result, all the four appeals fail and are consequently dismissed.