The Madras High Court has set aside en masse termination of the staff recruited in the Indian Maritime University here and directed the university to continue the services of those who had approached the court and were working as on date.
Two categories
Those who were working and thereafter not permitted to work pursuant to the termination order should be given continuity of service from the date of termination and thereafter when they were prevented from working, apart from the consequential benefits, except back wages.
Those who could not join pursuant to the termination order, taking note of the peculiar facts of the case were entitled to count their service from the prescribed last date given by the university to join duty. However, they also could not get back wages.
Justice M.M. Sundresh passed the common order on a large batch of writ petitions challenging the termination order.
