DECISION This appeal is directed against the order of the Vth Sind Labour Court, Karachi, whereby the grievance of the 11 appellants was rejected. The pendency of a Constitution petition in respect of payment of Wage Board Award was not in issue in their grievance petition against termination.
2. The question involved in all these petitions was regarding their service having been terminated by the respondent Journalist Publications Limited. Since they had changed their mode from Calligraphists to computorizat and these Calligraphists were no longer required by them. Their services were therefore terminated on account of this re-organisation.
2. Another batch of 11 Calligraphists had appealed before the Tribunal against termination of their service on similar grounds. The matter was heard before my learned Predecessor Mr. Justice Agha Ali Hyder. He found that the termination was legal and valid as all the requirement under Order 12(3) of the West Pakistan Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance, 1968 had been carried out to the latter. He accordingly came to the conclusion that in spite of termination the retrenched workers could collect their Wages in lieu of notice as held in 1980 PLC 735 and 1982 SCM R 46. The plea of the Journalist Publications was therefore, allowed and the prayer of the calligraphists was dismissed.
3. The subject-matter of the present appeal and even the pate are the same. The points at issue are also the same, this being an old matter that was pending before the Labour Court for one reason or the other. Therefore, for the reasons already assigned in Appeals Nos. KAR-211 to 221 of 1992 the appeals of 11Calligraphists are also dismissed but they have still the right to collect their legal dues from the Journalist Publications Limited.