IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH (Sr. No. 291)

(1) CWP No. 14990 of 2024 Date of Decision : 24.02.2025 Ajay Sharma ...Petitioner Versus Presiding Officer, Industrial Tribunal & Labour Court and others ...Respondents (2) CWP No. 18086 of 2024 Iqbal Mohd.

...Petitioner Versus Presiding Officer, Industrial Tribunal & Labour Court and others ...Respondents (3) CWP No. 20271 of 2024 Gurinder Singh ...Petitioner Versus Presiding Officer, Industrial Tribunal & Labour Court, Union Territory, Chandigarh and others ...Respondents (4) CWP No. 20286 of 2024 Jaspreet Singh ...Petitioner Versus Presiding Officer, Industrial Tribunal & Labour Court, Union Territory, Chandigarh and others ...Respondents (5) CWP No. 20291 of 2024 Jai Hind Kumar ...Petitioner Versus Presiding Officer, Industrial Tribunal & Labour Court, Union Territory, Chandigarh and others ...Respondents (6) CWP No. 20294 of 2024 Baljinder Singh ...Petitioner Versus Presiding Officer, Industrial Tribunal & Labour Court, Union Territory, Chandigarh and others ...Respondents (7) CWP No. 20295 of 2024 Sandeep Kumar ...Petitioner Versus Presiding Officer, Industrial Tribunal & Labour Court, Union Territory, Chandigarh and others ...Respondents (8) CWP No. 20318 of 2024 Gurpreet Singh ...Petitioner Versus Presiding Officer, Industrial Tribunal & Labour Court, Union Territory, Chandigarh and others ...Respondents (9) CWP No. 20264 of 2024 Rananjay Kumar Singh ...Petitioner Versus Presiding Officer, Industrial Tribunal & Labour Court, Union Territory, Chandigarh and others ...Respondents (10) CWP No. 24715 of 2024 Sudhir Kumar Srivastava ...Petitioner Versus The Presiding Officer, Industrial Tribunal, Union Territory, Chandigarh and others ...Respondents (11) CWP No. 19714 of 2024 Surinder Pal Singh ...Petitioner Versus Presiding Officer, Industrial Tribunal & Labour Court, Union Territory, Chandigarh and others ...Respondents (12) CWP No. 19739 of 2024 Salinder Singh ...Petitioner Versus Presiding Officer, Industrial Tribunal & Labour Court, Union Territory, Chandigarh and others ...Respondents (13) CWP No. 20390 of 2024 Satvinder Singh ...Petitioner Versus Presiding Officer, Industrial Tribunal & Labour Court, Union Territory, Chandigarh and others ...Respondents (14) CWP No. 20479 of 2024 Manjit Singh ...Petitioner Versus Presiding Officer, Industrial Tribunal & Labour Court, Union Territory, Chandigarh and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI Present: Mr. Amit Sharma (Kanav), Advocate with Mr. Gaurav Tangri, Advocate for the petitioner(s) in all cases.

Mr. P.S. Khurana, Advocate for respondents No. 2 and 3 in CWP-14990, 18086, 20271, 20286, 20291, 20294, 20295, 20318, 20264, 19714, 20390, 20479 and 24715-2024.

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Harsimran Singh Sethi J. (Oral)

1. In the present bunch of petitions, the challenge is to the order dated 06.11.2023 (Annexure P-8) passed by the Labour Court by which, the claim of the petitioner(s) for the grant of wages as per the recommendations of the Majithia Wage Board, which were accepted by the Government of India and Notified in the Gazette of India on 11.11.2011, has been denied.

2. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner(s) submits that petitioner(s) were working with the respondents on various posts but, starting from 11.11.2011 till they remained in service, the petitioner(s) were denied the benefit of salary as per the recommendations of the Majithia Wage Board even though, the same had already been accepted by the Government of India and Notified in the Gazette of India, hence, starting from 11.11.2011, the petitioner(s) should have been paid their wages as per the recommendations of Majithia Wage Board and the said claim raised before the Labour Court, has wrongly been rejected by the Labour Court, which has led to the filing of the present petitions.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner(s) submits that as per the recommendations of the Majithia Wage Board, it was the duty of the respondent