HC notice to Tangedco on regularisation of helpers’ jobs
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:17.11.2019
Twenty-five contractual helpers engaged by the North Chennai Thermal Power Station (NCTPS)for morethan 11 years has moved the Madras high court seeking to regularise their jobs and retain them in the newly created post of gangman.
“It is well settled that continuous employment of 480 days confers the right to demand regularisation on the workmen. In the present case, workmen have worked without break from 1998 to 2009 for 11years and thereafter from August 10, 2010 till date without break. Therefore, the petitioners are entitled to a claim of regularisation and cannot be termed a back-door entry,” senior counselP Wilson said representing the petitioners.
Admitting the plea, Justice S M Subramaniam ordered notices to the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited (Tangedco) and the NCTPS, returnable by November 21.
While10,000 such contract labourers are engaged presently by NCTPS, Tangedco issued two notifications which stated that the post of gangman is newly created with additional 5,000 posts on abolition of equivalent number of posts which were lying vacant for more than three years, the petitioners alleged.
The petitioners and other similarly situated people are mostly from local areas and many of them have voluntarily parted with their land for the construction of the power plant. Therefore, in the interest of equity and justice as well, it is only fitting that the corporation gives them the first preference while recruiting gangman, Wilson said.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:17.11.2019
Twenty-five contractual helpers engaged by the North Chennai Thermal Power Station (NCTPS)for morethan 11 years has moved the Madras high court seeking to regularise their jobs and retain them in the newly created post of gangman.
“It is well settled that continuous employment of 480 days confers the right to demand regularisation on the workmen. In the present case, workmen have worked without break from 1998 to 2009 for 11years and thereafter from August 10, 2010 till date without break. Therefore, the petitioners are entitled to a claim of regularisation and cannot be termed a back-door entry,” senior counselP Wilson said representing the petitioners.
Admitting the plea, Justice S M Subramaniam ordered notices to the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited (Tangedco) and the NCTPS, returnable by November 21.
While10,000 such contract labourers are engaged presently by NCTPS, Tangedco issued two notifications which stated that the post of gangman is newly created with additional 5,000 posts on abolition of equivalent number of posts which were lying vacant for more than three years, the petitioners alleged.
The petitioners and other similarly situated people are mostly from local areas and many of them have voluntarily parted with their land for the construction of the power plant. Therefore, in the interest of equity and justice as well, it is only fitting that the corporation gives them the first preference while recruiting gangman, Wilson said.
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