Judgment

GUPTA, J.:- These are four appeals by special leave from an Award of the National Industrial Tribunal, Bombay, made on September 3, 1980 disposing of two complaints under Section 33-A of the I. D. Act, 1947 holding that the employer, Reserve Bank of India, Bombay had changed to the prejudice of the complainants their conditions of service by modifying the existing scheme of promotion during the pendency of a reference before the Tribunal and had thereby contravened the provisions of Sec. 33 (1) (a) of the Act. Civil Appeals 2815 and 2816 of 1980 have been preferred by the Reserve Bank of India, Bombay. In civil appeal 2607 of 1980 the appellants are some of the stenographers employed in the Bombay office of the Reserve Bank of India. The four appellants in civil appeal 3150 of 1980 are also employees of the Reserve Bank of India, Bombay, one of whom is a clerk grade I and the other three are officiating as staff officers grade A. How the appellants in civil appeals 2607 and 3150 are affected by the Award will appear from the facts stated below.

The facts leading to the making of the complaints under Section 33-A are as follows. On June 16, 1979, the Government of India, Mini