1. The petitioner is one of the employees of the second respondent company, who, along with seve- ral others, were served with a notice on the 23rd October 1953 by which the second respondent company intimated to them that they proposed to lay-off these employees owing to certain difficulties which might result in the stoppage of work. On the 24th October 1953 an Ordinance was promulgated which provided for compensation for lay-off and compensation for retrenchment. The provisions of this Ordinance were ultimately incorporated, in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, as Chapter VA, Some of these employees were reinstated. With regard to the rest, including the petitioner a notice of termination of service was served upon them on the 28th September 1954. The second respondent company then approached the Labour Appellate Tribunal, before which certain" disputes between the second respondent company and its employees were pending, for permission to discharge these employees. The Labour Appellate Tribunal granted the permission with certain conditions. The second respondent company appealed to the Supreme Court and in January 1955 the Supreme Court decided that in granting permi