Question: I want to know whether maternity leave is available for contractual employees in Uttar Pradesh? Currently I am working in XXX department on a contractual basis. After three years of service I have applied for maternity leave but my head of the department has refused stating that I am not...
Service & Labour
Employer withholding salary
Question: Hi, I have given my resignation on 16th of May and I am currently serving a 2 month notice period. Employer withholding salary. My employer has paid me only for 1st to 15th of May and is planning to withhold my salary for the next 2 months. When asked they said they will pay me when I...
Can departmental inquiry be dropped upon being acquitted in a criminal case?
Question: The department had lodged an FIR against me for the offence of forgery and misappropriation. On the same basis a department inquiry was initiated against me for the misconduct in the discharge of official duty. Can departmental inquiry be dropped upon being acquitted in a criminal case?...
Termination of service due to lack of equivalent degree in medicine
Question: My service has terminated on the ground that I have not possessed an equivalent degree in medicine. Can termination of service due to lack of equivalent degree in medicine form a ground for challenge? I am working as an associate professor in a Medical College. In five years of my...
Transferred to remote area where no medical facility available to a kidney patient
Question: I have been recently transferred by the Director-General of ASI to a remote area which is also far away from my wife. It is distressing because my wife, who is also a state government employee, is worried about my health. I'm currently battling kidney failure and there is no one...
Not getting salary due to issue in my New Pension Scheme (NPS)
Question: I'm a central government employee. previously i was working in a govt dept as an mts, and there my nps account was opened by them. after that i got selected in Delhi police as Sub inspector so, took normal resignation from mts. There (delhi police), for the first 3 months they pay...
Government is planning to terminate the service of contractual employee
Question: We are working on the sanctioned post but as contractual employee. According to the terms and conditions of our contract the state government cannot terminate our employment until the sanctioned posts have been filled by the fresh recruitment. Now the government is planning to terminate...
Stopping of Pension or getting pension in part of my deceased father
Question: My mother died in 1996, and in 1998 my father got second marriage. My father was a govt employee and now the pension is being completely acquired by my stepmother. She took all the retirement benefits and did a lot of misdeeds with me. I am 30 year old and even do not have my own home,...
Will the government of Telangana regularize our services?
Question: We, the employees working in the O/o. Telangana State Council of Higher Education (A Statutory Body of the Telangana State), have been working on a Consolidated monthly remuneration for the past 10 to 15 years, with the hope that the Government of Telangana will regularize our services....
I left my organisation before the due date
Question: Hi, I left the organization after resigning, but the company had me sign a document stating new KPIs and that I should stay with the company until a certain date. However, I left before that date due to a couple of concerns, providing the company with 30 days of intimation. Now, upon...
Whether it is legal for an employer to withhold an employee’s salary
Question: The legal issue at hand is whether it is legal for an employer to withhold an employee's salary for May 2020, on the grounds of treating the employee as absent, when the employee stayed at home during lockdown under the protection of vulnerable people clause. The employee in question is...
State government has denied paying salaries to the employees of affiliated colleges because of paucity of fund
Question: We are non-teaching staff of the seven colleges have affiliation from the XXX university. Our services are approved by the government, and we are duly appointed in accordance with the rules of the university. But the university has denied paying salaries to the employees of affiliated...
Acquitted in criminal case but departmental enquiry is still ongoing
Question: Despite being acquitted in a criminal case, a departmental inquiry is still underway against me. The dispute arose from the checking of vehicles used for transporting contraband psychotropic substances. An officer from the regional office planted a false story to implicate me in the...
My service is terminated without notice: lack of equivalent degree
Question: My service is terminated without giving me notice for the lack of equivalent degree i.e., B.Ed. I am working as a middle school teacher in the basic education department of Bihar. After ten years of service, I am terminated for the want of B.Ed. degree however I have completed XXX which...
Government is taking full time work from contractual employees same as regular employees: Can we claim regularisation?
Question: There is five hundred thirty-seven employees are working in the university on the post of regular strength. Only sixty-one employees are working on regular basis. When we joined the job there was clear clause in the contract that we shall not be treated as the employee of the university....