1. The petitioner in these writ petitions is the Management of Holwart Engineering Company represented by its sole proprietor R.Ramamoorthy. In each of these writ petition, the challenge is to the Award passed by the II Additional Labour Court in various industrial disputes raised under Section 2 A(2) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 by the contesting first respondent.

2. The writ petitions were admitted on different dates. Pending the WPs, interim stay were granted. Although interim stay was granted during 2006 and 2007, some of the aggrieved first respondents have filed applications only during 2007 and 2012. Persons, who filed vacate stay petitions are M/s.K.Munusamy, S.P.Ganesan and A.R.Bharathy. The other workers have not filed any application and even these vacate stay applications were yet to be heard.

3. In W.P.Nos.19719 of 2006 and 32520 of 2007, counter affidavits have been filed by the first respondent. This Court on finding that the petitioner have not typed out the depositions made before the Labour Court, directed the Labour Court vide order dated 04.01.2012 to send the original records filed before the Labour Court for perusal by this Court. Accordingl