(1.) HEARD learned counsel for the parties.
(2.) SHORN of all technicalities and embellishment, the substantive case of the petitioner is that he was employed in the Municipality as daily rated workman in the year 1991-92. He was paid salary upto August, 1993 and thereafter when he demanded for salary in the regular pay-scale of Peon plus Dearness Allowance, his services were unceremoniously terminated on 2. 12. 93 without complying with the provisions of Section 25-F of the Industrial Disputes Act that is to say neither one month notice was given before termination nor one month salary as remuneration in lieu of notice was paid to him at the time of retrenchment nor any retrenchment compensation was paid to him at the time of retrenchment. It was also alleged that the respondents were not obliged to pay their employees minimum pay as per the Minimum Wages Act.
(3.) THE decision relied on the learned counsel for the respondents also does not laid down the law differently.