Wage Discrimination Between Permanent And Temporary Employees
Equal Pay For Equal Work In India Temporary employees performing similar duties and functions as discharged by permanent employees entitled to draw wages at par with permanent employees in the government sector. Mere difference in nomenclature would not dis-entitle an employee from being paid the same wages as permanent employees. Any act of paying less wages as compared to others similarly situated, constitutes an act of exploitative enslavement. The constitutional principle of ' equal pay for equal work ' has been upheld by the Supreme Court of India (" SC ") with respect to temporary employees' vis-à-vis permanent employees in the government sector. In State of Punjab and Ors. v. Jagjit Singh and ors .( Decided on October 26, 2016) , the SC has ruled that temporary employees performing similar duties and functions as discharged by permanent employees are entitled to draw wages at par with similarly placed permanent employees. The principle...