Contractual employees entitled to minimum pay scale granted to regular employees if doing equal work: Allahabad HC

Contractual employees entitled to minimum pay scale granted to regular employees if doing equal work: Allahabad HC

Allahabad High Court in SukhVir Singh and Ors. vs.State of U.P. W.P. No. 2516/2019, allowing the plea of contractual employees claiming minimum of pay scale as per the direction of Supreme Court in State of Punjab vs. Jagjeet Singh, (2017) 1 SCC 148, observed that the persons who have been appointed and are continuously discharging duties commensurate with regularly appointed persons, such persons are also entitled to be paid the same wages in accordance with the provisions of ‘equal pay for equal work’ and also considering that fact that the employees have been working for a substantially long length of time and are getting wages below the minimum wages fixed by the state Government.

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