(1.) Common questions of law and facts are involved in these writ petitions; hence they are clubbed and are taken up together for disposal by this common judgment.
(2.) It is averred in the writ petitions that the petitioners were engaged by the respondents on daily wage basis in the years 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2007 respectively as averred in paras 2 and 3 of the writ petitions. Their services were orally terminated by the respondents without complying with the provisions of Sec. 25-G and F of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 somewhere in the years 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001 to 2004, 2007, 2011 and 2012. At the time of termination, the petitioners were assured by the respondents that they would be reemployed as and when work is available, but the Department is stated to have appointed the junior persons than the petitioners, who are still continuing but the petitioners have not been given appointment.
(3.) The petitioners raised Demand/industrial disputes against their termination somewhere in the years 2005 to 2012, in their respective petitions, before the Labour Commissioner for referring the matter to the State Industrial Tribunal-cum-Labour Court, for short 'the Industrial Tribunal', but the Labour Commissioner refused to refer the matter to the Industrial Tribunal for the reason that there was inordinate delay in raising the disputes.