Contract Employees – PCMC Hospitals – Permanency & Pay scale
The contract employees were engaged from time to time in Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, in various positions of Physician, Surgeon, staff nurse, Technicians, Ward Assistants, Cleaners, Pharmacist, Data Entry Operator, etc in its various Hospitals on honorarium and initially for a period of six months.
The details of several employees are given in para 8 of the judgment.
The Industrial Court held that they are not entitled to permanency but regular wages at the minimum of pay scale from the date of their appointments.
HELD that the contract employees directly employed by PCMC are entitled to wages at minimum scale from the date of filing complaints by each employees. No right is created in contractual or temporary employees for regularisation / permanency merely on the strength of few years of casual / contractual service. PCMC being an instrumentality of the State is under obligation to fill in sanctioned post by regular selection. Contractual appointees of six months cannot brand themselves to be irregularly appointed on vacant sanctioned posts. No right is acquired based on contractual employment to remain in services of Corporation.
Judgment dated 8.8.2024 of the Bombay High Court in W.P.No.5692 of 2023 of Kamila Kiran Mane Vs. Municipal Commissioner, PCMC and others with connected matters.
