Disability during employment makes employee entitled to alternate employment: Andhra Pradesh HC

Disability during employment makes employee entitled to alternate employment: Andhra Pradesh HC

Andhra Pradesh High Court in Sri Ch.S. Rajeswara Rao vs. Government of Andhra Pradesh W.P.No. 5486/2011, referred Section 47 of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 (now Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016) [“Disabilities Act“], on September 14, 2022 ,observed that under the Disabilities Act, it is the statutory duty of the employer not to throw the employee out of service but to provide the alternative employment to some other post with the same pay scale and service benefits and if there was no such post available the supernumerary posts should have been created.

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