R. JAYASIMHA BABU, J.

What is impugned is the order of the Labour Court by which the Labour Court declined to grant the relief of reinstatement to the petitioners, who had worked as call boys, which is an unskilled work in the respondent co-operative society, though it was found that they have worked for 480 days intermittently, on the ground that appointments so made, had been made contrary to the requirements of Section 119-A of the Tamil Nadu Co-operative Societies Act, 1961.

Counsel for the petitioners submitted that in the light of the finding that work had been performed for 480 days, the petitioners were entitled to the relief of reinstatement and continuity in service and the Labour Court award to the extent it denies that relief is contrary to law.

Counsel relied upon two judgments tendered by two learned single Judges of this Court. In the case of M. Irudhayanathan v. State of Tamil Nadu 1997 (3) LLN 544, the Court found that the relief that had been sought by the petitioners was to direct the milk producers union to regularise the workmen and such a direction was required to be given as the workmen had worked for the period specified in the Tamil Nadu Industrial