( 1 ) HEARD the learned Advocates for the respective parties.

( 2 ) ). In the present petition, the order passed by the Payment of Wages authority, Vadodara in Application No. 425 of 1990 dated 30-6-1999 is challenged by the petitioner-United Catalysts (India) Limited [hereinafter referred to as, the Company].

( 3 ) ). The brief facts of the case are that the respondent-workman had preferred an application before the Payment of Wages Authority at Vadodara being Application No. 425 of 1990 for payment of subsistence allowance for 60 months and compensation thereon totalling Rs. 83. 700. 00. According to the respondent- workman, he was suspended pending departmental inquiry on 24th August, 1985, and thereafter, he requested the petitioner for payment of subsistence allowance during the pendency of the departmental inquiry, however, no payments were made to the petitioner, and thereafter, on 14th August, 1989, he gave written application to the petitioner under the provisions of the Model Standing Orders, stating that he was entitled to get subsistence allowance during the pendency of the departmental proceedings at the rate of 75 % (seventy-five percent) for 60 months