Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 28
The Chandigarh Bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has actually directed the PGI to release show-cause notifications of a minimum of 2 weeks to workers prior to passing any order of healing of benefit already paid to them.
CAT passed the order while dealing with an application submitted by the PGI Employees’ Union (non-faculty) and PGI Medical Technologists Association through Ashwani Kumar Munjal and a clerk Ravinder Kumar Saini 4 years back. The candidates looked for an instructions of CAT to quash an order provided by the Ministry of Health on October 29, 2019.
The ministry had, through the order, directed the PGI to desist from paying benefit for the year 2018-2019 and to recuperate non-productivity connected benefit/ad hoc bonus paid to non-gazetted group B and group C staff for the years 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18.
Karan Singla, the supporter standing for the candidates, declared that the instructions for the healing had actually been provided simply on a plea that the Secretary, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, had actually not provided particular workplace memorandum (OM) for the payment of advertisement hoc benefit to workers of self-governing bodies for the years 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18.
He said the non-gazetted group B and group C staff were being paid advertisement hoc benefit for the past more than thirty years and likewise satisfy the terms set by the Ministry of Finance vide OM dated October 8, 2002, for payment of advertisement hoc benefit to workers of self-governing bodies. The plea of participants that no particular OM had actually been provided by the Ministry of Finance was illogical and unwarranted since the Ministry of Finance, has actually not provided any particular OM for payment of benefit to workers of self-governing bodies from September 6, 1967 to 2001.
Singla argued that the participant institute had profits of over Rs 140 crore each year from healthcare facility invoices, lease, and so on. No share of such cost and profits were paid to non-gazetted group B and group C workers.
After hearing of the arguments, CAT observed that the counsel of the candidates sent that till date no official order had actually been provided by the participant PGI qua healing of non-productivity connected benefit and the candidates were still getting it. The counsel even more said candidates would be pleased if participants were directed that prior to passing any order qua the healing of the very same, a show-cause notification must be served on them. The Tribunal said in view of this, the participants were directed that prior to passing an order of healing, by following the concepts of natural justice, the candidates need to be provided a show-cause notification of a minimum of 2 weeks.
