1. In W.P.No.5497 of 2006, the petitioner is the Management of RSL Industries, Textile Division, Coimbatore. They have come forward to file the writ petition, challenging a common order passed by the first respondent Labour Court, Coimbatore in C.P.Nos.674 to 707 of 2004 and 709 to 730 of 2004. By the impugned order dated 18.11.2005, the Labour Court computed the amounts in favour of the contesting respondents pertaining to the claim for wages for the period from 12.12.2003 to 31.05.2004 depending upon their salary. The Labour Court held that they were entitled for full wages in terms of 25-O(6) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (for short I.D.Act).

2. The writ petition was admitted on 28.02.2006. Pending the writ petition, an interim stay was granted on the same day. Subsequently, it was extended on 03.04.2006. The aggrieved contesting respondents filed vacate stay application in WPMP.No.147 of 2008 and the same was dismissed by this Court. The interim stay was made absolute by an order dated 03.11.2008.

3. In the meanwhile, the workmen who were covered by the impugned order filed a separate writ petition in W.P.No.7479 of 2009, challenging that portion of the order,