Mehar Singh, J.

1. The authority under the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (Act 4 of 1936), has entertained claim of the respondents for recovery of earned wages, wages in lieu of earned leave, and retrenchment compensation and this on an application under Sec.15 of that Act. There was dispute between the respondents and the applicant as employer, and there followed a settlement under Sec.12 (3) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (Act 14 of 1947), under which settlement the agreement was that the respondents as employees of the applicant were entitled to the benefits as stated and they were to be retrenched with effect from 18 December 1963. The applicant not having made payment according to the settlement, the respondents made the claim which has been entertained by the authority under the Act. The arrears of earned wages have been paid by the employer. The dispute is thus confined only to wages in lieu of earned leave and retrenchment compensation.

2. The applicant questioned the jurisdiction of the authority to entertain such a claim which was described as unascertained, but the decision has gone against the applicant, the learned authority, repelling the contention on the