JUDGMENT :

Abhay Manohar Sapre, J.

1. These two appeals namely Civil Appeal No.10530 of 2011 and Civil Appeal No.7961 of 2014 are directed against the final judgment and order dated 15.02.2010 passed by High Court of Kerela in Writ Appeal No.249 of 2009 which arose out of order dated 22.09.2009 passed by Single Judge in O.P. No.14360 of 1999 and against another final order dated 20.03.2014 passed by the High Court of Kerala in Writ Appeal No.1746 of 2013 which arose out of an order dated 04.09.2013 passed by Single Judge in W. P. (C) No.14786 of 2013 respectively.

2. Though these appeals arise out of an order passed by the High Court of Kerala, but we find that these appeals also involve more or less the same point which we have dealt with in detail in our order passed today (20.08.2018) in Civil Appeal No.10499 of 2011, Civil Appeal No.10511 of 2011 (Food Corporation of India and Ors. vs. Gen. Secretary, FCI India Employees Union and Ors.) which arose from the orders passed by the High Court of Madras.

3. The present two appeals are filed by the FCI against the Workers’ Union of different branches, the only difference being that the Civil Appeal No.10499 of 2011 and Civil Appeal No.10