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HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT
BIREN VAISHNAV, HEMANT M. PRACHCHHAK, JJ
Shukla Shilpa Vinodrai – Appellant
Versus
Municipal Commissioner – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
(BIREN VAISHNAV, J.)
1. In all these appeals filed by the Rajkot Municipal Corporation as well as the employees challenge is to the the order of the learned Single Judge dated 21.10.2019.
2. Briefly stated, the employees who are the applicants before the Gujarat Secondary Education Tribunal, had approached the Tribunal seeking relief of regularization and pay-scale. It was their case that, they were performing duties with the Corporation on a fixed remuneration. They were entitled, according to them, to a regular salary in a regular pay-scale. They, accordingly, have prayed for regularization.
2.1 The Tribunal by separate orders in each of the applications partly allowed the applications, inasmuch as the relief of regularization was refused, whereas, the Tribunal granted ‘equal pay for equal work’. Those orders of the Tribunal were challenged by the Corporation and by some employees.
2.2 The learned Single Judge by the Judgment under challenge confirmed the orders of the Tribunal in so far as it denied regularization, however, the learned Single Judge directed the Corporation to grant minimum of pay-scale, which is extended to a regular teacher, to the respondent teachers fro
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