JUDGMENT :

V.G. ARUN, J.

The petitioner is running an establishment dealing in sale of furniture, hardware, plywood, glass and building materials and manufacture and sale of modular kitchen cabinets. The Head load Workers (Regulation of Employment and Welfare) Scheme, 1983 (‘the Scheme’ for short) has been implemented in the area where the petitioner is conducting business. According to the petitioner, all loading and unloading works in his establishment are carried out using cranes operated by skilled crane operators, since the materials to be loaded and unloaded are fragile articles. The petitioner admits that there are incidental loading work in his establishment, which require manual labour. For this purpose, the petitioner has caused his workers to apply for registration under Rule 26A of the Kerala Head load Workers Rules (‘the Rules’ for brevity). The applications having been rejected by the Assistant Labour Officer, an appeal has been preferred before the District Labour Officer and the same is pending. It is submitted that respondents 2 and 3 are the head load workers union and the 4th respondent is the Convener of the Head load Workers pool constituted for the area consisti