Private sector workers getting regular pay hikes can be considered permanent employees: High Court
periodic pay hikes or annual increments can be considered permanent employees. This decision came while the court partly allowed a revision petition for an increase in compensation related to a road accident case. The court thereby increased the compensation by over Rs 2.72 lakh, a TOI report stated.
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Anjum Ansari, the petitioner, had contested the compensation previously awarded by a tribunal under the Motor Vehicles Act. She argued that her deceased husband, who taught at a private college affiliated with Rajiv Gandhi Praudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, deserved a higher compensation rate. As a permanent employee of the college, Ansari asserted the claims court should have calculated the «future prospects» component at a 15% rate rather than the 10% rate it initially used.
In response, the respondents claimed that only government employees should be considered permanent employees, and thus an employee of a private college could not be treated in the same manner.
Justice A. K. Paliwal, addressing these contentions, referred to a five-judge bench Supreme Court order in the National Insurance Company vs Pranay Sethi case.
«If a person is in such a job wherein his salary is increased periodically/receives annual increment etc., such a person would be treated as being in permanent job,» Justice Paliwal said.
Justice Paliwal concluded that the
