Pay-scale issue
Chandigarh: In an order expected to benefit as many as 44 Chandigarh Transport Undertaking employees, a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today disposed of their petition with a direction that they “shall be deemed to have been granted revised pay scales with effect from January 1, 1986, instead of November 3, 1989.
Pronouncing the orders in an open court, the Bench, comprising Justice Ashutosh Mohunta and Justice K.C. Puri, added: However, the petitioners shall not be paid the arrears of difference of pay scales, but will be entitled to all other consequential benefits.
In their petition through counsel R.C. Chathrath, Kanhaya Lal and 43 other employees had sought the grant of benefit of enhanced pay scale with effect from January 1, 1986. The petitioner had claimed that the UT Administration had adopted the pay scales of the Punjab Government.
Once Punjab Roadway’s employees of workshop category had been granted pay scales with effect from January 1, 1986, the modifications in pay scales would also be applicable in case of the UT Administration workshop category employees.
Source: TNS