General Motor-Owners' Association (By ... vs Mahamoodkhan Vazirkhan on 3 November, 1966
34. So far as the jurisdiction of the Payment of Wages Authority is concerned, the mere declaration that the dismissal is wrongful cannot give it jurisdiction to decree a claim for wages for that period. There must be an order of reinstatement, and admittedly there was no order of reinstatement passed in the present case. To the extent, therefore, that the decision in Namdeo v. Chocks, etc., Ltd., [1962 - II L.L.J. 323] (vide supra) holds that an order passed under S. 41 simpliciter would give jurisdiction to the Payment of Wages Authority to decree a claim for wages of that employee, that decision must be held to be incorrect. Without an order of reinstatement, the Payment of Wages Authority would have no jurisdiction to order the payment of wages.