ISLAMABAD, Nov 12: National Industrial Relations Commission on Monday extended the stay against new recruitments in Overseas Pakistanis Division to Nov 19, 2007 and restrained the OPF authorities from making any new appointment till the final decision in the case.

Member NIRC Muhammad Shabbir Jamal issued the extension orders without hearing the case because the lawyers are on strike, protesting the proclamation of emergency and clipping the powers of judiciary.

OPF union leaders had moved the NIRC against the OPF management and its plans to make new recruitments in the overseas Pakistanis division and its subordinate offices. Union leaders, in the application, had complained that more than 100 employees of OPF had been working on contract for the last 18 years but they were not being regularised. —Staff Reporter