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Temporary, badli/ substitute workers
SC’s orders on wages, arrears
The Times of India, Aug 10 2016
Vaibhav Ganjapure
SC to LIC: Pay Rs 3,543cr as back wages from 1991 The Supreme Court directed Life Insurance Corporation of India to cough up Rs 3,543 crore as back wages of the temporary and substitute workers who were sacked by the company more than 25 years ago.
Disposing of LIC's review petition, the apex court asked it to absorb about 8,000 such temporary workers across the country , including 350 in Nagpur, in its services, as per existing terms and conditions, and as directed in its original judgment of March 18, 2015.
The apex court directed LIC to comply with its directives in eight weeks as it took into account the fact that the petitioners had been fighting the legal battle for 25 years through All India National Life Insurance Employees Federation.
“These temporary and badli or substitute workers, who are entitled for regularisation as permanent workmen in terms of our March 18, 2015, judgment by applying the terms and conditions of the modified award of August 26, 1988, passed by Justice Jamdar, are held to be entitled to full back wages. “However, keeping in mind the immense financial burden it would cause LIC, we deem it fit to modify relief only with regard to back wages.
Therefore, we award 50% of the back wages with consequential benefits,“ a division bench comprising Justice V Gopala Gowda and Justice C Nagappan ruled.
The review petitions arose from SC's March 18, 2015, verdict which held that the award passed by Central Government Industrial Tribunal, New Delhi, in 1991, was valid and it should be restored by the insurance major by absorbing petitioner workmen in permanent posts. It was held LIC would be liable to pay all consequential benefits, including monetary , taking into consideration the revised pay scale in cases of those workmen who attained superannuation.
