Heard learned Counsel for the parties.

2. This petition challenges an award passed by the Labour Court at Nashik rejecting the reference made to it at the instance of the Petitioner herein. The Petitioner was appointed as a trainee with the Respondent with effect from 2 April 1990. The appointment order issued to him on 2 April 1990 appointed him as a trainee in the Respondent's factory at MIDC, Satpur, Nashik with effect from the date of the letter. The period of training was said to be one year. After completion of this period, by a communication dated 1 April 1991, which according to the Petitioner was received by him on 11 April 1991, the Respondent informed the Petitioner that his training period was completed from the close of business on 1 April 1991. The Petitioner was, accordingly, requested to collect his dues against proper acquittance. It was the case of the Petitioner before the Labour Court in the reference that his service did not come to an end on 1 April 1991 but that from 1 April 1991 he was on ESI Medical leave till 3 April 1991 and that this leave was subsequently extended upto 11 April 1991, when he received the letter of the Respondent communicating t