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Category: Service

Service Matters
Service

Principle of `equal pay for equal work’, in relation to temporary employees (daily-wage employees, ad-hoc appointees, employees appointed on casual basis HELD that all the concerned temporary employees, in the present bunch of cases, would be entitled to draw wages at the minimum of the pay-scale (-at the lowest grade, in the regular pay-scale), extended to regular employees, holding the same post.

Feb 28, 2021 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Before:- Jagdish Singh Khehar and S.A. Bobde, JJ. Civil Appeal No. 213 Of 2013. D/d. 26.10.2016. State of Punjab & Ors. – Appellants Versus Jagjit Singh…

Service Matters
Service

Constitution of India, 1950 – Art 14, 16 & 21 – Pension Scheme – Retired employees – Whenever such new benefit is extended for the existing employees, retired employees cannot seek such benefit, merely on the ground that they too were the former employees of the Corporation.

Feb 25, 2021 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA FULL BENCH HIMACHAL ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION AND ANOTHER — Appellant Vs. HIMACHAL ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION RETIRED EMPLOYEES UNION — Respondent ( Before : Ashok Bhushan, R.…

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Motor Transport – Selection process is mandated due to the posts of Head Constable Motor Transport being highly technical – Rules are neither discriminatory nor arbitrary – Constable Drivers can be promoted on the basis of seniority to Head Constable Drivers – If they desire to be appointed as Head Constable Motor Transport, then they have to go through selection process –

Feb 25, 2021 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA DIVISION BENCH RAJESH KUMAR SINGH AND OTHERS — Appellant Vs. THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before : L. Nageswara Rao and…

Service Matters
Service

Heart ailment – Section 2(i) of the Act takes into account visual disability, locomotor disability, mental illness, mental retardation, hearing impairment and leprosy – A heart ailment is not covered within the definition of disability in the Act – When the 1995 Act was replaced by the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016,

Feb 16, 2021 sclaw

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA FULL BENCH NAWAL KISHORE SHARMA — Appellant Vs. UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before : Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Dinesh Maheshwari and Hrishikesh Roy,…

Service Matters
Service

Appointment – Members of the teaching faculty of the University be it Lecturer or Assistant Professor are entrusted with teaching, which is to be imparted according to academic calendar – It is in the interest of the University that all doubts regarding appointment of teachers are raised within a period of three months to have an early decision by Chancellor to give quietus to the disputes in the University.

Feb 7, 2021 sclaw

(2021) 2 SCALE 227 SUPREME COURT OF INDIA FULL BENCH POORAN CHAND — Appellant Vs. CHANCELLOR AND OTHERS — Respondent ( Before : Ashok Bhushan, R. Subhash Reddy and M.R.…

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Consumer Insurance Law

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Consumer

Consumer Protection Act, 2019 — Section 2(1)(d) — Consumer — A person purchasing a vehicle for business to earn livelihood is a consumer. — Deficiency in service — No deficiency in service if a vehicle model is not available and another available model is given to the buyer as per mutual understanding and agreement, and the buyer fails to make payments for the second vehicle.

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Service

Regularisation of contractual/ad hoc employees — Notifications dated 16.06.2014 and 18.06.2014, which sought to regularise the services of Group ‘B’, ‘C’, and ‘D’ employees were found to be valid as they aimed to provide benefits to employees left out from a previous regularisation policy and had clear criteria for eligibility such as working on sanctioned posts and possessing necessary qualifications.

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Environment Mining

Environmental Law and Wildlife Protection — Illegal Sand Mining — Supreme Court’s Suo Motu Cognizance — The Supreme Court took suo motu cognizance of rampant illegal sand mining in the National Chambal Gharial Sanctuary, recognizing its severe impact on wildlife habitats, including endangered Gharials. The Court issued notices to concerned states and authorities, highlighting that such destruction of habitats violates environmental protection laws like the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 and the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.

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