Wednesday, 10 August 2016

SC orders LIC to reinstate temporary workers

       The TOI carried a news item in its issue dated 10th August, 2016. It states that the Supreme Court has asked LIC to reinstate the temporary workers sacked by it since 1991 and pay them 50% of their wages with retrospective effect from 1991.
       This news is heartening as it reinforces our belief that the Supreme Court will definitely order LIC to pay the resigning employees their arrears' dues and difference in retirement benefits with interest. These payments have been repudiated since 1997.
        If the temporary workers who weren't even in service since 1991 can get their dues, we who have been in service as on date of repudiation (retrospective date from which the Charter is effective); can definitely get our dues!
        In fact, the Supreme Court has declared the Clause of Repudiation (Clause 3 1 B to be ultra vires in 2008, despite which LIC persists in including it in its subsequent Wage Revision Charters (Dated 2010 and 2016). The Supreme Court must haul up LIC of India for blatant Contempt of Court and order it to pay us our hard-earned, legally rightful dues immediately; because as the adage goes, "Justice delayed is justice denied!"

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