F. I. REBELLO, J.

( 1 ) THE petitioners had filed a complaint being complaint No. 564 of 1998. The case of the complainant was that the respondents were employers. As the workman engaged by the employer were not being given benefits which they were entitled to under various Labour legislation such as benefits of E. S. I. C. , Insurance and other benefits and some other benefits as set out in the plaint, the workman approached Shri. Chandrakant saya and Shri Harish Sawala, the respondent partners in order to redress their genuine grievance on several occasions. As the workman found that their genuine grievances are not being settled, they enrolled themselves with the petitioner union. The Union by its letter of 4-9-1998 raised a complaint with the office of the Deputy Labour Commissioner against the employers and requested that their genuine grievance be redressed. It is also set out that the respondent Nos. 2 and 3 are the partners of respondent No. 1. They only brought to the notice of the employers that the workmen had joined Union and requested the employers to co-operate with the Union to settle the genuine grievances of the workmen. In spite of the communication, the un