Part-time employees in government institutions are entitled to monetary benefits only from the date when they are regularised in service and not from the day when they complete10 years of service, the Madras High Court Bench here has ruled.
Allowing a writ appeal preferred by the State, a Division Bench of Justices S. Manikumar and G. Chockalingam held that a single judge of the court was not right in ordering regularisation as well as grant of monetary benefits immediately after completion of 10 years of service.
The Division Bench agreed with Additional Advocate General K. Chellapandian that last year, the Supreme Court had categorically held that part-time employees in government institutions could not seek even regularisation of service as a matter of right. Nevertheless, the government had been considering the pleas for regularisation sympathetically. R. Paulian, a part-time sweeper in a government school in Kanyakumari, was one such beneficiary. A Government Order passed in his favour stated that he would be entitled to monetary benefits only from the date of passing of the G.O.
He challenged the legal validity of the G.O. and a single judge of the High Court on January 29, 2014 ordered grant of monetary benefits also from the date of completion of 10 years in service.
