FIXED-CONTRACT PAR NA KARMACHARIO RAJI THAYI JAAY EVO SUPREME COURT E AAPYO CHUKADO.
The verdict could impact about 1.5 lakh employees who have been recruited under the scheme in different government departments.
A division bench of acting Chief Justice Bhaskar
Bhattacharya and Justice JB Pardiwala also told the state government to
give regular salary benefits to all its fixed pay employees from the
date of their appointment.
The Gujarat government has been employing people in various
fields like police, education, forest department on a fixed pay basis,
where they are given some basic fix pay for the first five years.
Such employees work on contract for the first five years
and become permanent employee subsequently. The court told the
government to discard the fixed pay employment scheme saying that it
amounted to exploitation of new employees and against fair practice.
Petitioner Rajendra Shukla in his petition had contended
that the fixed pay scheme was inhuman and new employees were being
exploited by the state government.
In some cases the fixed monthly pay was as law as Rs 2,500,
which violates labour laws of the state also, he had said. The high
court dictate will have a major financial implication for the state
exchequer as there are about 1.5 lakh fixed pay employees in different
government departments.
