per section 2(s) of the Act; he was terminated by the management without any reason; he was not given any opportunity before such termination nor there was any contract of service that his services will be terminated on 08.10.2003; and thus, there was a clear violation of provision of law in terminating the services of the employee. Taking note of the same, the Labour Court rightly passed the award in setting aside such illegal termination and directing the management to reinstate the employee in service. Without properly appreciating the same, the High Court set aside the part of the award viz., direction to the management to reinstate the employee in service with payment of lumpsum compensation in lieu of back wages, by the order impugned herein, which will have to be set aside. 6. Drawing our attention to the judgments of this Court compiled in the form of typed set of papers, the learned senior counsel for the employee made the following submissions: (i) In Industrial Law,