( 1 ) THIS group of 65 Letters Patent Appeals is preferred from a common judgment of this Court, whereby, 65 petitions of the appellant challenging the award of the Industrial Tribunal, Ahmedabad were dismissed. By the award of the Industrial Tribunal, the appellant University was directed to pay to the respective original complainants wages for the extra weekly holidays as also for the eleven days of unpaid Diwali holidays imposed upon them. It further directed not to give any extra leave of absence without pay in a week. These directions in favour of the respective complainants before the Industrial Tribunal were subject to the condition that only such of the complainants as were fulfilling the conditions of the settlement dated 22. 8. 1980 would be entitled to the benefits. The cause of the complaints or the genesis of the controversy lay in the adoption by the University of a new schedule of work in 1991 under which there was to be general holiday on the 2nd and the 4th Saturday and also eleven holidays during Diwali festivals. The complainants being daily wagers and their demands and disputes for regularization being pending, the aforesaid changes were challenge