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Daily wagers to be confirmed as workcharge after 8yrs of service-HC

Himachal High court recently provide great relief to daily wagers serving in the state government  directing the state to grant them confirmation as workcharge after eight years service. The judgement was passed by special bench of chief Justice A A Sayed (now retired) and justice Sabina (serving as acting CJ now) on January 12, 2023 copy of which was released her today.DB decided that writ petitions filed by the employees  are allowed and the respondents are directed to grant work charge status to the employees from the date they had completed eight years service on daily wage basis in terms of the decision given by this Court in Ashwani Kumar’s case supra.However benefits consequent to confirmation of work charge status in terms of instant judgment shall be restricted to three years for the period prior to filing of petition. The Letters Patent Appeal (s), which have been filed by the respondents / State / employer against the orders passed by learned Single .DB said in 184 paged judgement that   moot question involved in the present cases is, as to whether a daily wager is liable to be conferred work charge status after completion of 8 years of service. Letters Patent Appeal No.165 of 2021 is taken up as the lead case. Hence, the facts arising from this appeal have been taken up for discussion. The Daily wagers employees in 2016 has knocked the door  Himachal Pradesh State Administrative Tribunal. Since HPSAT was closed down by previous  government the matter was listed before single bench of High Court which allowed the petition. 

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