1. The points raised in these two writ petitions and the relief claimed therein being identical, they have been heard together on the suggestion of both sides. There are 11 petitioners in O. P No 1951 of 1980 and 5 petitioners in O. P. No. 2134 of 1980. All of them were appointed by the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation as reserve Conductors on a purely temporary basis under R.9(a)(i) of the Kerala State and Subordinate Services Rules, the provisions of which have been made applicable to personnel in the service of the Corporation The orders of appointment given to the writ petitioners contained a recital that the appointments were to enure only for a period of 89 days The grievance with which the petitioners have come up to this Court is that steps are being taken by the Corporation to discharge them from service without complying with the procedure laid down in S.25G of the Industrial Disputes Act (for short the Act). According to the petitioners, despite the fact that their orders of appointment contained a specification of the duration of their tenure in the posts in question, the termination of their service constitutes "retrenchment" for the purpose of the A