Judgment:
ORDER
Mr. A.S. Anand, J.
1. Respondent is present on caveat. Heard.
2. Special leave granted.
3. Printing is dispensed with. Parties may file additional documents within four months.
4. We have heard learned Counsel for the parties (sic) I.A. 1 of l996(sic).
5. In our opinion the impugned order needs to (sic) stayed only in so far as the direction with reward to the payment of back wages is concerned and we make an order accordingly.
5. So far as the future wages etc. is concerned, 'the employees, who were concerned with the complaint(s) filed under PULP, shall be rein stated by the appellant and shall be entitled to be paid salary at the minimum wages on the same grade/scale on which the said employees were being paid the salary under the Minimum Wages Act at the time when their services were terminated. It shall, however, be open to the appellant, in the event it has no work to assign to the said employees, not to assign any work to them but that shall not absolve the appellant of its responsibility to pay the wages as directed above. These directions would be operative with effect from October l5, 1996.
6. The interim directions hereinabove given are without prejudice to the rights of the parties to be determined at the hearing of the appeals.