(1.) Both the writ petitions are connected and they are taken up together. The petitioners are employees of various Sugar Mills situate within the State of Haryana. They are governed by the Service Rules for the Employees of the Cooperative Sugar Mills in the State of Haryana. The Rule No. 43 of the Service Rules is as follows:-
(2.) The Government has filed its counter stating that all the petitioners have bound themselves to terms and conditions of employment and they are bound by the Government scales, which are fixed in terms of the Rules and they cannot bring a comparison to their own scales of pay to the scales applied for employees of Panipat Sugar Mill.
(3.) Learned counsel appearing for the respective management of the sugar mills where the petitioners are working also have a similar contention to make that all the petitioners are bound by the terms and conditions of service and they cannot ask for a parity with the scales of any one particular sugar mill where higher scales of pay are given.