N.K.SODHI
Punjab State Electricity Board – Appellant
Versus
Presiding Officer, Labour Court – Respondent
N. K. Sodhi, J.
1. Punjab State Electricity Board (for short, the Board) terminated the services of Kundan/singh-workman which gave rise to an industrial dispute and the same was referred for adjudication to the Presiding Officer, Labour Court, Bhatinda. By the impugned award dated November 22, 1989, the Labour Court recorded a finding that the workman was entitled to reinstatement with continuity of service and full back wages. The motion Bench while admitting the writ petition filed by the management stayed the operation of the award which order was subsequently modified and the same was made subject to the provisions of Sec.17-B of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 . After the modification of the stay order, the Board has reinstated the workman. It is common case of the parties that the workman is being paid wages at the initial stage of the current pay scale but not the increments to which he has become entitled in terms of the impugned award. The present application has been filed by the workman with a prayer that a direction be issued to the Board to pay to him his full current wages including the amounts due to him by way of increments to which he is entitled under t
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