Regularisation of employees only after pending petitions are cleared: HC

The two-judge vacation bench of the Telangana High Court made it clear that the ongoing process of regularisation of employees may go on but cannot be finalised pending further orders in a batch of writ petitions. The bench of Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy and Justice Santosh Reddy was dealing with petitions filed by G. Uma Rani and others, questioning the action of the state government in seeking to regularise part-time and contract labour in the exercise of an amended provision of the Public Employment Act. Senior counsel S. Satyam Reddy found fault with



the process saying it was contrary to the provisions of the parent Public Employment Act. 

He said that the provision, which empowered the government to make changes, cannot include the power to drastically alter the Parent Act while taking recourse to the state reorganisation Act. He pointed out that over 5,000 posts of lecturers, junior lecturers and pharma staff are being filled up in a manner contrary to law and at the cost of cadre jobs meant for the unemployed.