PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/ Nainital
While hearing a petition filed against the State government for not regularising the contractual employees working in departments for years despite orders, the Uttarakhand High Court directed the State government to provide them with the minimum wages. The next hearing has been scheduled for June 9. The petition further stated that they were not being paid as per the selected pay scale while GST was being deducted from their salary.
During the hearing, the State government stated that it had held up new appointments to replace them on the condition that they would not make any other demands unlike other employees. The government was willing to provide them with the minimum wages, it further told the court.
The lawyers representing the union of the contract employees stated that a division bench of the court had previously issued an order regarding the regularisation of contractual employees. But no decision had been taken by the State government on this order, they said.
The case was heard by a single bench of Justice Rakesh Thapliyal.
