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Decision to reduce employee’s pay scale and recover excess amount can’t be applied retrospectively after a long time gap: SC

The Court further stated that any step of reduction in the pay scale and recovery from a government employee would be like a punitive action because the same has drastic civil and evil consequences.

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Jharkhand HC sets aside orders reducing pay scale of an employee for requirement of Diploma in Engineering

The Court stated that recovery of excess amount from the employee was not permissible, if there was no misrepresentation or suppression by the petitioner.

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Equal Pay for Equal Work | Equality is not to be based solely on designation or nature of work; J&K and Ladakh HC reiterates

The High Court stated that that the person who asserts that there is equality in work has to prove the same first.

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Court can consider parity in pay scales for historically similarly placed employees: Supreme Court reiterates

Supreme Court regarded the High Court’s conclusion to be ‘unexceptionable’ since it did not equate two sets of employees in different organisations.

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Utt HC | Reasons to record in a judgment are life of law and in absence, judgment cannot be said to be legal; Court allows appeal

Uttaranchal High Court: Lok Pal Singh, J., allowed a writ petition which was filed seeking a writ of certiorari to quash the

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MP HC | Employees belonging to the same grade are entitled to receive remuneration at par

Madhya Pradesh High Court: Vandana Kasrekar, J., allowed a writ petition and extended the benefit of 5th pay scale to the petitioner.

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P&H HC | No discrimination between grant of revisional pay scale when State had already decided to equate pay scale of certain post

Punjab and Haryana High Court: A Division Bench of Rajiv Sharma and Harinder Singh Sindhu, JJ. dismissed the writ petition on the

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Kar HC | Right to regularisation of person on purely contractual basis depends on express or implied terms of appointment

Karnataka High Court: P.B. Bajanthri J., dismissed the petition for regularisation of the service on the ground that statutory rule recognizing such

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MP HC | A ‘permanent employee’ has right to receive only minimum of the graded pay-scale with no increments unless regularised

Madhya Pradesh High Court: Petitioner had approached the Court before a bench of Sheel Nagu, J. under Article 226 of the Constitution

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Refusal to accept alternative job on same pay scale is “abandonment of service”: SC

Supreme Court: A Bench comprising of A.M. Sapre and Indu Malhotra, JJ. disposed of an appeal seeking enhanced severance package wherein the order

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State cannot make Rules to exclude the employees of unaided educational institutions from the benefits of revised pay scale

Supreme Court: In the case where the validity of the Rules made in respect of the 6th Pay Commission by State of

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Porters provide valuable support to the Indian Army and hence, should be paid wages at par at the lowest pay-scale applicable to multi-tasking staff

Supreme Court: In the matter where the rights of the posters working for the Indian Army were I n question, the Court