Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/sc-saves-lic-of-huge-financial-burden-ahead-of-ipo/articleshow/91137837.cms
SC saves LIC of huge financial burd ..
Kindly refer to the above-mentioned news item which reports that L.I.C of India has been saved by the Supreme Court; from regularizing the temporary workers who have been demanding the same through a prolonged legal process.
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We, the long-suffering, resigning ex-employees of L.I.C of India request the Honorable Supreme Court to save us. Kindly step in and ensure that we get our legally rightful dues (repudiated wage revisions arrears' payments and difference in the Statutory Benefits - P.F. and Gratuity) from the Corporation before the I.P.O commences.
The Corporation doesn't have any reason to repudiate our back-wages. The wages have been consistently repudiated since 1st August 1997, as per the Corporation's submission in reply to my R.T.I appeal. The repudiation itself is totally illegal as rightly observed and analyzed by the Supreme Court in its 2007 judgement; in which it has even stated that such repudiation is beyond the powers of the Chairman of the Corporation. The Chairman has decided a cut-off date for wage revision but shouldn't make a distinction between 2 classes of employees (voluntarily resigning and resigning). All resigning employees are equal in the eyes of the law. Wages are the constitutional right of all employees.
It's interesting to note that the Corporation is responsible for the delay in implementation of the Charter hence can't make the employees who were on the salary roll of the Corporation from the effective date of wage revision; as the scapegoats in the bargain.
We'd like to apprise the Supreme Court that the Corporation, a premier profit-making institution, continues to include the Clause 3B ii which has been declared as Ultra Vires by the Supreme Court in its judgement dated 2007; in all its Charters for Wage Revision thereafter too. This is wilful Contempt of Court.
JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED.
Not only does it indicate the Corporation's malafide intentions, but also its propensity to cock a snook at the Constitution and the judiciary. If it can't respect its obligations towards the sincere ex-employees who have put in long hours and years of service, how will it ever respect its obligations towards its other stake-holders in future? What's the guarantee?
The Corporation has consistently betrayed the uberrima fides of its resigning ex-employees for more than two decades (25 years!)
My R.T.I Appeal itself is 11 years old! I've been fighting for our rights since 2010. All the details of my lone but determined struggle, along with scanned documents are available on this blog. Several similarly duped ex-employees (including those from the Corporations' sister concerns) have approached me and expressed willingness to join this seemingly unending fight for justice. Their comments/observations/opinions/experiences are also there on this blog, as are various judgements regarding the Corporation's cases.
So we finally urge the Supreme Court to end our misery once for all by stepping in to grant us our legally rightful dues. It is our only HOPE!
SATYAMEVA JAYATE!
Meanwhile, prospective share-holders of L.I.C of India - BEWARE!
Who knows, you could be the next to be duped by the Corporation! God Forbid.
