GENERAL SECRETARY COMMERCIAL EMPLOYEES Vs. GOVERNMENT OF TAMILNADU

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THESE petitions coming on for hearing on Wednesday the 10th day of January, 1990 and upon perusing the petitions and the affidavit filed in support of W. P. No. 1672/89 on the file of the High Court and the order of this court dated 13th February 1989, and made in W. M. P. No. 2563/89 upon hearing the arguments of Mr. N. T. Vanamamalai for Mr. K. K. Parthasarathy, Advocate for the petitioner in both the petitions and of Mr. N. Bhaskaran, Government Advocate, on behalf of the respondent 1 to 3 in both the petitions and of Mr. Sanjay Mohan, Advocate for the 4th respondent and having stood over for consideration till this day, the court made the following order.

(2.) W. M. P. No. 2563 of 1989 is filed by the writ petitioner for grant of ad interim injunction restraining the fourth respondent-Management from in any way displacing or terminating the services of 14 workmen presently employed in the process of sweeping and scavenging in the fourth respondent establishment pending disposal of the writ petition. W. M. P. No. 2564 of 1989 is filed by the writ petitioner for issuance of a direction to the fourth respondent-Management for payment of interim relief to bridge the gap between the amounts being paid to the petitioner workmen concerned in the range of Rs. 300/- to Rs. 450/per month and the applicable scale of pay to the same category of workmen in the fourth respondent-establishment in the range of Rs. 1,500/- per month or any amount as per the direction of the court pending disposal of the writ petition.

(3.) THE facts which are necessary for the disposal of these petitions as disclosed from the affidavit filed in support of the petitions are briefly as follows :-