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TN employees move SC challenging HC order on dismissal
New Delhi, July 15: One of the striking Tamil Nadu government employees unions today filed an appeal in the Supreme Court challenging the Madras High Court order upholding the decision of the state government to dismiss nearly two lakh staff.
New Delhi, July 15: One of the striking Tamil Nadu government employees unions today filed an appeal in the Supreme Court challenging the Madras High Court order upholding the decision of the state government to dismiss nearly two lakh staff.
The special leave petition filed by Tamil Nadu State Transport Employees Federation sought immediate stay of the ordinance under which the employees were dismissed and
requested the court to restrain the government from preventing the striking employees from reporting to duty.
The federation, through its vice-president T K Rangarajan, sought an order from the court restraining the state government "from filling up the posts of the dismissed employees with fresh recruits." It also sought an order asking the state government not to evict the employees from their allotted quarters till the pendency of the appeal before the apex court.
The high court on July 11 had ordered release of arrested striking employees but refused to quash their dismissal orders saying they have to move the state administrative tribunal to challenge these orders.
The high court had also observed that their summary dismissal from service under the ordinance promulgated after invocation of ESMA did not violate any fundamental right. The high court had accepted the government's contention that sat was the appropriate authority to hear the matter as it related to service conditions of government employees.
Bureau Report
The federation, through its vice-president T K Rangarajan, sought an order from the court restraining the state government "from filling up the posts of the dismissed employees with fresh recruits." It also sought an order asking the state government not to evict the employees from their allotted quarters till the pendency of the appeal before the apex court.
The high court on July 11 had ordered release of arrested striking employees but refused to quash their dismissal orders saying they have to move the state administrative tribunal to challenge these orders.
The high court had also observed that their summary dismissal from service under the ordinance promulgated after invocation of ESMA did not violate any fundamental right. The high court had accepted the government's contention that sat was the appropriate authority to hear the matter as it related to service conditions of government employees.
Bureau Report