THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE G.CHANDRAIAH W.P.NO.24867 OF 2001 O R D E R Heard both the counsel. 2. The respondents in this writ petition ﬁled M.P.No.9/1998 on the ﬁle of Additional Industrial Tribunal – cum – Additional Labour Court, Hyderabad alleging that they are working in the respondent Organization – Central Workshop, State Health Central Organization as skilled workers, but they are being paid wages equivalent to helpers/class-IV and hence they sought for a direction to the present writ petitioner - State Health Transport Oﬃcer, Central Workshop, State Health Central Organization, Sanjeeva Reddy Nagar, Hyderabad to pay diﬀerence of amount by applying the concept of equal pay for equal work on par with skilled workers. By the impugned order dated 14.9.2001 the Industrial Tribunal – cum – Labour Court allowed their petition. Aggrieved by the same, the present writ petition is filed by the Government. 3. The case of the petitioner – State Health Transport Oﬃcer, State Health Transport Organization is that the respondent - workmen were engaged as contingent workers in the State Transport Organization on daily wage basis with ﬁxed wages during the year 1977 and subsequently, they were absorbed as Last Grade Employees as un skilled employees on completion of ﬁve years and hence the Last Grade Service Rules are applicable to them and further as they are Government Servants, they do not come under the purview of the Factories Act or E. S. Act and hence Section 33 of the Industrial Disputes Act, under which they ﬁled I.D. has not application and the Tribunal also has no jurisdiction to entertain the dispute. It is stated that unless they are promoted as Skilled Artisans, they cannot get the skilled artisans scale. Their grievance is that the Tribunal without considering these aspects, though raised in the counter ﬁled before it, allowed the petition. The further grievance of petitioner is that there are number of unskilled employees are working in the Organization, and if the impugned order is not set aside, the Government will suffer huge financial loss. 4. The learned counsel appearing for the respondents supporting the impugned order, sought to dismiss the writ petition. 5. From the material on record, it could be seen that the respondents claiming that they are working in Automobile Engineering Workshop of the petitioner – Organization as skilled workmen, but they are being paid wages equivalent to helpers/class –V, ﬁled petition before the Tribunal seeking diﬀerence of wages on par with skilled workers by applying the principle of equal pay for equal work. In support of their claim, the workmen got examined W.Ws.1 and 1 and 2 and got marked Exs.W.1 to W-19. In their evidence, they categorically deposed that they are working on par with skilled artisans. W.W.1 further deposed that earlier he along with two workers ﬁled M.P.No.29/86 on the ﬁle of the Tribunal for diﬀerence of wages and got favourable orders, but as the Management failed to implement the same, ﬁled writ petition in W.P.No.10576/1988 on the ﬁle of this court and this court also conﬁrmed the orders of the Tribunal. If the Organization is aggrieved by the orders of this court, it ought to have ﬁled writ appeal and there is no material on record to show any appeal is filed. Therefore, the order of this court directing to pay the diﬀerence of wages has become ﬁnal. Further it is also to be seen that the management witness no.1 who was examined on behalf of organization has categorically deposed that the respondents herein are equally working along with other artisans in repairing the vehicles in all respects. He further admitted that the petitioners are being worked as skilled workers, but they are being paid Helper Grade-II salaries. Therefore, considering all these circumstances, the Tribunal rightly allowed the petitioner and directed the writ petitioner herein to pay the difference of amount to all the respondents. 6. For the foregoing reasons, I do not ﬁnd any merit in the writ petition and the same is dismissed conﬁrming the impugned order passed by the Tribunal. No costs. AVS -------------------------------------- - 12—09—2008