#daily wage employees

The Andhra Pradesh High Court directed regularisation of a daily wage employee with 30 years of service, waiving the statutory 5-year condition under the Andhra Pradesh (Regulation of Appointment to Public Services) Amendment Act, 1998. The ruling underscores that perennial work and decades of indispensable service override technicalities, reinforcing constitutional protections under Article 21. State governments must now justify denial of regularisation on stronger grounds.

The Karnataka High Court dismissed a writ petition for regularisation of daily wage employees, ruling that exhaustion of alternative remedies-specifically, prior representation to the competent authority-is a prerequisite for invoking Article 226. The judgment reinforces that extraordinary remedies under writ jurisdiction cannot be sought as a matter of course without first pursuing statutory or administrative redressal.

Madras High Court rules that daily wage employees of Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation are entitled to family pension under the TNSTCE Pension Scheme 1998, counting their service from the date of appointment. The Court directed payment of pensionary benefits within eight weeks, reinforcing that arbitrary exclusions violate judicial discipline and service law principles.

Daily wage employees regularized after 2004 are entitled to the Old Pension Scheme if their pre-regularization service was continuous. The Punjab & Haryana HC ruled that denying pension benefits based on post-2004 regularization violates settled law, ensuring financial security for thousands of government employees.