N. Kumar, J.

1. W.P.No. 38974/99 is preferred by the Management of Larsen & Toubro Komatsu Limited challenging the award of the Labour Court dated 13.8.99 passed by the Industrial Tribunal, Bangalore, in I.D.No. 12/97, in so far as it pertains to reinstatement of four employees. W.P.No. 29500/2000 is preferred by the Larsen & Toubro Employees Association and its four workmen who were dismissed from the service challenging the very same award in so far as it denied hack wages and wages for the strike period and for other reliefs. As in these writ petitions what is impugned is the common award passed by the Industrial, Tribunal these writ petitions are taken up for consideration together, heard and disposed of by this common order.

2. The facts in brief leading to the impugned award are as under:

Larson and Toubro Komatsu Limited is a leading engineering industry in India with an annual turn over of more than Rs. 4,300/- crores, on the date of the writ petition. It is having a factory in Bangalore called as L&T Bangalore Works. It employed about 1200 employees including 795 workmen. (The said company for short hereinafter referred to as “the Management”) Larsen & Toubro Employees