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High Court fiat on contract staff regularisation
The High Court at Hyderabad on Wednesday directed the Telangana State government not to go ahead with the regularisation of contract employees. The court said prima facie the exercise appeared to be not correct.
​Hyderabad: The High Court at Hyderabad on Wednesday directed the Telangana State government not to go ahead with the regularisation of contract employees. The court said prima facie the exercise appeared to be not correct.
It also directed that only those employees who have been appointed on or before 1996, and who have completed 10 years of service alone, are eligible to be regularised as per the Supreme Court orders in Uma Devi case.
The division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice Shameem Akhter gave this direction in an interim order while hearing a Public Interest Litigation petition filed by J Shankar of Jagityal district and N Govind Reddy of Nalgonda district assailing GO MS No.16 which provided for regularisation of contract employees. They also objected to the insertion of Section 10-A in the Andhra Pradesh Public Employment Act, 1994, while adapting it to the State of Telangana.
Telangana Advocate General K Ramakrishna Reddy in his argument before the bench said the government was regularising only those, who have been working on contract basis for the last five to 10 years depending on the vacancies available in a given department.
A committee was formed by the government and only on the basis of its recommendations of the committee the exercise was being carried out. He also informed the court that the contract workers were hired after giving newspaper advertisements.
Senior counsel S Satyam Reddy, appearing for the petitioners, in his arguments stated that insertion of Section 10-A in the Employment Act was totally against the judgment of the Supreme Court in State of Karnataka versus Uma Devi case.
He also pointed out that the State government was violating the assurances it gave in a previous litigation concerning the issue. It was illegally going ahead with regularising of the contract employees.
The bench made it clear that the regularisation exercise should be carried out in accordance with guidelines given by the Supreme Court in Uma Devi case.
