Consider fixed-wage teachers as permanent employees: Gujarat HC
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- Tuesday, 01 May 2012 11:10
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Gujarat Global News Network, Ahmedabad
In a second such order, the High Court has ordered Gujarat government to consider 46 teachers who are teaching mentally challenged children in schools on fix wages as permanent employees. In January this year, the Gujarat HC has ordered Gujarat govt. to give 6th pay commission benefits in basic pay to all government employees that are working on fixed wages
The court has also asked the government to provide these teacher benefits of regular employees from the date of their appointment with retrospective effect. The order was passed by a division bench of acting Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala.
Explaining the case, Advocate Shalin Mehta said,” Earlier, 40 out of the 46 teachers were getting fix pay of Rs 2,500 per month, while other six teachers were getting fix pay of Rs 4,500 per month. These 40 teachers had approached a lower court stating they should be getting the salary on par with the teachers getting Rs 4,500 per month.”
When a single judge bench ordered the government to pay the teachers on par with each other, the government lowered the fix wage of the six teachers from Rs 4,500 to Rs 2,500 per month. Subsequently matter reached the division bench of the HC, which had already struck down the policy of the government to hire people on fix wages for a fix period while calling it unconstitutional in January this year.
The court ordered the government to consider the teachers as regular employee from the date of their appointment in 2006 and provide them all benefits of regular employees from the date of their appointment with retrospective effect.
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