#retrospective regularization

Contractual teachers regularized under the U.P. Secondary Education Act are legally entitled to salary arrears dating back to their original appointment, not just from the date of regularization. This ruling upholds substantive equity in public employment, ensuring that long-serving teachers are not penalized for administrative delays in formalizing their status.

Orissa High Court rules that contractual service from 1996 must be counted for pension eligibility under OCS Pension Rules, 1992, where the sanctioned post remained vacant and the State failed to recruit despite tribunal directives. The judgment entitles the employee to retrospective absorption and pension benefits, reinforcing the State's duty as a model employer.

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.