Officiating staff get no vested right to promotion under unused rules: Supreme Court
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AI-generated summary of the coverage listed below: The Supreme Court ruled that employees who work on a local officiating basis under administrative instructions do not have a guaranteed right to promotion if the recruitment rules that would have applied were never activated. The decision, made by a bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Ujjal Bhuyan, clarifies that restructuring of a cadre removes the benefit of earlier rules for such staff. This ruling affects the career prospects of many officiating civil servants across the country.
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- Equal pay for equal work cannot be applied mechanically, Supreme Court rules — Deccan Herald (center)
- Officiating staff get no vested right to promotion under unused rules: Supreme Court — Deccan Herald (center)