#daily wage employee

Madhya Pradesh High Court reaffirms that daily wage service must be included in pension calculations upon regularization, relying on binding precedents in Rahisha Begum and Laxmikant Mishra. The ruling ensures equal protection for daily wage employees under service law, mandating retrospective pension benefits.

The Delhi High Court has held that prolonged service as a daily wage employee, even spanning decades, cannot generate a legal entitlement to retrospective regularization or notional pay fixation in the absence of a statutory rule, policy, or contractual provision. This ruling reinforces that administrative discretion in public employment cannot override the principle of legality, affecting thousands of non-permanent workers seeking backdated benefits.