compassionate employment Archives

Compassionate Appointment Cannot be Kept in Abeyance by Invoking Rule Applicable Only to Financial Assistance: SC upholds Haryana Rule

Supreme Court clarified that compassionate appointment and compassionate financial assistance are distinct benefits under the Haryana Compassionate Assistance Rules, 2019, and held that Rule 23(1) cannot be invoked to defer a claim for compassionate appointment during the pendency of criminal proceedings.

Case Briefs High Courts

Jharkhand High Court| Date of application or Date of death – From when is the monetary compensation on account of death of an employee to be paid?

Jharkhand High Court: S.N. Pathak, J., allowed the writ petition directing Central Coalfields Limited (‘CCL') to modify the monetary compensation

Case Briefs High Courts

Utt HC | Does engagement of elder brother creates any impediment in considering the claim for appointment on compassionate grounds? Court answers

Uttaranchal High Court: Sharad Kumar Sharma, J., allowed a writ petition which was filed praying for quashing of order passed by respondent

High Courts

Married daughter of a deceased Government employee is eligible for compassionate appointment

Madras High Court: While deciding the question that whether a married daughter of a deceased Government employee is eligible for compassionate appointment,