Hafiz ASMATULLAH vs CEO, QESCO, ZARGHOON ROAD, QUETTA S — 2026 PLC 100 NATIONAL-INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-COMMISSIO

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Hafiz ASMATULLAH VS CEO, QESCO, ZARGHOON ROAD, QUETTA S.31---Managerial decisions by employer---Unfair labour practices---Scope---National Industrial Relations Commission, jurisdiction of---Scope---Petitioners being employees of Quetta Electrical Supply Company / QESCO invoked S.31 of the Industrial Relations Act, 2012, alleging that the respondents / QESCO had committed gross unfair labour practices by unilaterally scrapping the decades-old binding "Commercial Procedure" and imposing an entirely new feeder-wise duty system---Validity---In the present case, the petitioners failed to bring their grievance within any specific entry of the IRA, 2012---The change from an old commercial procedure to a feeder-wise system was, admittedly , aimed at improving recovery, reducing line losses and curbing power theft objectives that were in public interest and fell squarely within the legitimate administrative domain of the employer---No material had been placed on record to even prima facie establish that the new system had been introduced to victimize the petitioners on account of their trade union membership or activities---Petitioners failed to prove any violation of settled terms and conditions of service---The so-called "Commercial Procedure" was never a statutory service rule or part of any settlement of the IRA 2012; it was an internal working arrangement that the management was competent to revise in larger public interest---Efficiency-driven administrative changes cannot be challenged as unfair labour practice---Petitioners failed to point out violation of any specific clause of QESCO's SOPs---Mere assertion that SOPs had been violated was not enough---No unfair labour practice within the meaning of the Industrial Relations Act, 2012 had been made out---Petition under S.31 of the Industrial Relations Act, 2012, being non-maintainable and merit-less, was dismissed, in circumstances.

Hafiz ASMATULLAH vs CEO, QESCO, ZARGHOON ROAD, QUETTA S — 2026 PLC 100 NATIONAL-INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-COMMISSION

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