Letters Patent Appeal No.975 of 2011 -1- *** IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Letters Patent Appeal No.975 of 2011(O&M) Date of decision: 30.5.2011 M/s Rozana Akali Patrika ...Appellant Versus Sh. Gurdial Jassal and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE ADARSH KUMAR GOEL, ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE AJAY KUMAR MITTAL Present: Mr. Sanjay Tangari, Advocate for the appellant. ADARSH KUMAR GOEL, ACJ. This appeal has been preferred against the order of learned Single Judge holding that the workman, who had been ordered to be reinstated by the Labour Court, was entitled to the minimum wages i.e. Rs.3329/- per month as against Rs.1200/- per month being paid by the appellant-management. We have heard learned counsel for the appellant. Learned counsel for the appellant submits that under Section 17-B of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, the workman could only get wages which he was drawing at the time of termination of his service in the year 1996 and not minimum wages applicable today. We are unable to accept the submission. Once workman has been reinstated and is being allowed to work, he has to get Letters Patent Appeal No.975 of 2011 -2- *** atleast applicable minimum wages and not wages of the year 1996. We, thus, do not find any merit in this appeal. The appeal is dismissed. (Adarsh Kumar Goel) Acting Chief Justice May 30, 2011 (Ajay Kumar Mittal) Pka Judge