PAKISTAN PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT (PWD) through Director General G-9, Islamabad vs SAJJAD AZIZ, WAITER S

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PAKISTAN PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT (PWD) through Director General G-9, Islamabad VS SAJJAD AZIZ, WAITER S.O. 1(b)---Daily wage employee--- Permanent workman, entitlement of---Scope---Period of service---Regularization/ permanency of employment---Scope---Admittedly, the respondents were hired by the appellant/ establishment (Pakistan Public Works Department) more than a decade ago and were serving the appellant / establishment since then and thus, taking the stand by the appellant that the respondent did not fulfill the criteria for the post was not good standing---Respondent's employment was not denied by the appellant from the date as alleged by the respondents---According to Standing Order 1(b) of the Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance, 1968 ('the Standing Orders Ordinance, 1968'), a permanent workman is a workman, who has been engaged on work of permanent nature likely to continue for more than nine months and has satisfactorily completed a probationary period of three months in the same or another occupation in the industrial or commercial establishment---In the present case, the posts against which the respondents had been working had not been restricted to any period or duration, hence, for all intents and purposes were permanent posts---An employee serving for more than nine months against a regular post acquires the status of permanent employee---Undenialably, the respondents were rendering service continuously for the last several years, thus, as per Standing Order 1(b) of the Industrial and Commercial (Standing Orders) Ordinance, 1968, attained the status of permanent workmen and it hardly needed any emphasis to say that the work performed by the respondent was surely of apermanent nature---Appellant though argued that the respondents were engaged for project work which had been completed but had failed to bring on record the particular of any such project; on the other hand it had been noticed that the respondents were engaged by the appellant (Pakistan Public Works Department)---Hence, the Single Bench of National Industrial Relations Commission had rightly allowed the grievance petition by coming to the conclusion that in view of the nature of duties performed by the respondents they were entitled to become permanent in service---Appellant failed to point out any irregularity in the impugned order warranting any interference, thus, the same was maintained---Appeal was dismissed.

PAKISTAN PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT (PWD) through Director General G-9, Islamabad vs SAJJAD AZIZ, WAITER S — 2026 PLC 162 NATIONAL-INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-COMMISSION

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