‘EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK’ FOR STAFF ON CONTRACT

CHANDIGARH : The Haryana government has decided that the the ‘equal pay for equal work’ principle will be initially applied to employees engaged under outsourcing policy (Part 2), with effect from November 1

An official spokesman said in a statement on Saturday that the principle will be applicable to contractual employees, subject to application of parameters of the principle as summarised in para 42 of the judgment of the Supreme Court.

In respect of contractual pay, these employees will be entitled to the minimum pay-scale of the categories to which they belong, but will not be entitled to any of the allowances attached to the post. A committee was constituted last month to decide on cases of other categories of employees other than those covered in Part 2 of the policy to whom this principle of ‘equal pay for equal work’ will apply.

All the departments, boards, corporations and autonomous bodies which have engaged manpower under Part 2 of the policy have also been advised to apply the principle in respect of eligible employees, with effect from November 1, he said. For application of the principle to any other category of employees , the departments, boards and corporations can approach the committee ,the spokesman said.

PRINCIPAL TO BE APPLIED AS PER ITS PARAMETERS SUMMARISED IN APEX COURT JUDGMENT