are as follows: The management is a newspaper establishment publishing a daily newspaper in English viz., New Indian Express having its publication unit at Bhubaneswar. The employee was initially appointed as Junior Engineer (Electronics and Communication)5 by the management on 07.06.1997 and was subsequently, confirmed in the said post on 13.07.1998. He was thereafter promoted to the post of Assistant Engineer (E&C) with effect from 01.05.2000 and was regularised in the said post with effect from 01.05.2001. While so, he was relieved from service on 08.10.2003, by paying a sum of Rs.6,995.65 towards one month salary in lieu of notice. Aggrieved by the same, he approached the Labour authorities, who referred the matter for conciliation. After failure of the conciliation and based on the opinion of the appropriate authority that an industrial dispute exists between the parties, a reference was made, which culminated in I.D. Case No.27 of 2007, in which, the Labour Court passed an award