{"id":15500,"date":"2016-11-02T18:44:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T13:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indialegalonline.com\/?p=15500"},"modified":"2017-10-16T12:54:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T07:24:21","slug":"temporary-staffers-eligible-for-equal-pay-for-equal-work-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/top-news-of-the-day\/il-news-articles\/temporary-staffers-eligible-for-equal-pay-for-equal-work-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Apex court vouches for \u2018equal pay for equal work\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Supreme Court judge Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, delivering the judgment on the behalf of the division bench, the other judge being Justice SA Bobde, on October 26, 2016, in <em>State of Punjab and Others vs Jagjit Singh<\/em> <em>and Others<\/em>, had upheld that the temporary workers must be paid at the same rate as the regular workers for performing the same duties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Justice Singh said, \u201cIn our considered view, it is fallacious to determine artificial parameters to deny fruits of labour. An employee engaged for the same work, cannot be paid less than another, who performs the same duties and responsibilities. Certainly not, in a welfare state.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Reiterating the Supreme Court\u2019s view in number of cases and the constitutional provision under which it has been done, he stated, \u201cThere is no room for any doubt that the principle of \u2018equal pay for equal work\u2019 has emerged from different provisions of the Constitution. The principle has been expounded through a large number of judgments rendered by this Court, and constitutes law declared by this Court.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He also cited Article 7 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural rights, 1966, which India ratified in 1979, and which prescribes fair wages and prohibits discrimination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He said, \u201c\u2026we have no hesitation in holding, that all the concerned temporary employees, in the present bunch of cases, would be entitled to draw wages at the minimum of pay-scale (at the lowest grade, in the regular pay-scale), extended to regular employees, holding the same post.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Lead picture: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A worker at a car factory. Photo: UNI\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr Supreme Court judge Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, delivering the judgment on the behalf of the division bench, the other judge being Justice SA Bobde, on October 26, 2016, in State of Punjab and Others vs Jagjit Singh and Others, had upheld that the temporary workers must be paid at the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2476],"tags":[34,4278,1248,4279,3402,128,3563,4276,4275,4277,4280,4274],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Lead-picture-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}