KARACHI: A Sindh High Court bench, comprising justices Irfan Saadat Khan and Adnan Karim, directed the Pakistan Steel Mills authorities on Wednesday to maintain status quo in respect of the regularised employees of the PSM.
The bench was hearing a constitutional petition of the Pakistan Steel Peoples Workers Union filed through its chairman Shamshad Qureshi.
He impleaded the secretary of industries and production, the National Accountability Bureau, the Pakistan Steel Mills Corporation and the Pakistan Steel Labour Union as respondents.
The bench issued notices to the respondents as well as the deputy attorney general and NAB’s deputy prosecutor general, directing them to file their respective replies on the petition.
Petitioner’s counsel advocate Choudhry Mohammad Ashraf Khan told the judges that the petitioner was a CBA union leader and a number of employees of the Pakistan Steel Mills were regularised in 2010.
Published in Dawn, February 23rd, 2017
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