NAINAR SUNDARAM, J

Writ Appeals Nos. 748, 774, 775 & 776/80 and 8, 9, 26 & 84/81 and Writ Petitions Nos. 713 & 875/84, ORDER

Per Nainar Sundaram, JThere are eight writ appeals and two writ petitions. The writ appeals are directed against the common order of Padmanabhan. J., the same reported in V. Ganeshan v. State Bank of India and others (1988-LLJ-64). Nationalised Banks - the employers - are the appellants in the writ appeals. The employees of Nationalised Banks are respondents in the writ appeals and in the two writ petitions, such employees, represented by their unions, are the petitioners. The controversy, both in the writ appeals and in the writ petitions, stems out of the actions taken or proposed to be taken by the Nationalised Banks against their employees. We shall first deal with the writ appeals. We have avoided delineating minute details of the facts of the cases, in view of the scope of the points argued before us. In six out of eight writ appeals, the employees went on demonstrations during working hours of the day in question and thereby absented themselves from the work spot for those hours and did not do the allocated work, during those hours. But they