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1989 PLC 92

PATTOKI SUGAR MILLS, POTTOKI vs MUHAMMAD RASHID ABBASI and 13 others

Citation1989 PLC 92
CourtLabour Appellate Tribunal
Case No.Petition No, KS-201 of 1987
Date1987-07-12
Judge(s)Sardar Muhammad Abdul Ghafoor Khan Lodhi
ResultRevision dismissed

' This is a revision reporting that the order date 26-4-1987 recorded by learned Presiding Officer, Punjab Labour Court No, 2, Lahore is wrong and improper.

2. The facts are that the respondents were the office-bearers of the C.BA. Union but they were removed by passing no-confidence vote and other office-bearers were elected and the matter was sent to the Registrar for approval who accorded the same. The respondents have gone to the learned Labour Court in appeal against the approval. The learned lower Court has suspended the approval vide its order dated 10-1-1987. After the approval was suspended by the learned Labour Court the respondents served upon the petitioner a charter of demands. Thereafter the other office-bearers also served a different charter of demands upon the petitioner. The petitioner moved an application under section 34 of Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969 to the learned lower Court contending that the executive body of the respondents was illegally constituted inasmuch as number of outsiders was more than 75 per cent as they have been removed from service. The persons removed from service have brought separate applications under section 25-A of Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969. The petitioner in his application brought under section 34 made an application for interim stay to restrain the respondents from negotiating with the petitioner on the charter of their demands. The said application has been dismissed. The plea taken by the petitioner is that the other group of office-bearers has served a charter of demands with the result that the petitioner has to negotiate with two sets of office-holders. The stand of the petitioner is that the body whose members are respondents was illegally constituted and thus they cannot be negotiated. The other stands is that the suspension of the approval does not mean that the officeholder ship of the respondents stand survived. At this stage, it cannot be said which set of office-bearers would be declared as legal office-holders and since both of them have served charter of demands and want to negotiate with the petitioner prima fade cases it would be inconvenient for the petitioner to negotiate with both of them. But there is another development in the case. The learned lower Court has restrained both the groups from negotiating with the petitioner till the decision of the appeal pending there. Since both the groups have been restrained from negotiating with the petitioner, no question of inconvenience or loss arises and in these circumstances the order of learned lower Court cannot be interfered with.

3. As a result, the revision fails and is dismissed.

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