JUDGMENT :

R.M. LODHA, J.

The award passed by the Central Government Industrial Tribunal No. 2, Mumbai on June 30, 1997 adjudicating two references namely Reference No. CGIT-2/47 of 1993 and Reference No. CGIT-2/26 of 1995 is under challenge in this writ petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India at the instance of the petitioner ANZ Grindlays Bank Ltd. ANZ Grindlays Bank Ltd. (for short ‘the Bank’) is a Banking Company having its head office in London and various Branches in India including a dozen of them in the City of Bombay. The respondent No. 1 Grindlays Bank Employees Union (for short “the Union”) is a recognised union representing the workmen employed in the Bank in India. The dispute relates to reinstatement and regularisation of various employees in the sub staff cadre of the Bank. According to the Union, the Bank in violation of the various awards governing the recruitment and employment of employees in the Bank resorted to engage various persons in its branches at Bombay as temporary employees and denied them the conditions as laid down in the awards and settlements since the year 1988. This act on the part of the Bank gave rise to the demand by the Uni