JUDGMENT - Smt. NISHITA MHATRE, J.:---By this petition, the petitioners have challenged the ex parte order of the Labour Court in an application filed under section 33-C(2) of the Industrial Disputes Act as well as the orders refusing to grant unconditional stay of the ex parte order and the recovery certificate issued pursuant thereto.

2. The facts giving rise to the present petition are as follows :

Petitioner No. 1 is a Restaurant and Bar being run by petitioner Nos. 2 and 3, who are its partners. The respondents, who are the workmen employed with the petitioners, filed an application under section 33-C(2) of the Industrial Disputes Act (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act') on 21-10-1999 claiming minimum wages, overtime, wages for the weekly-off, leave wages and bonus. Calculations of the amounts claimed had been filed alongwith the application filed by the respondent-workmen individually. It appears that although the petitioners were served through the bailiff, the petitioners refused to accept the service. The Labour Court, therefore, on 17-6-2000 directed the matter to proceed ex parte and by an order dated 20-9-2000, the Labour Court held by a common judgment that all the re

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