The Delhi high court has again directed the city’s three municipal corporations to ensure payment of February salaries to all their employees by March 29.
The Delhi high court has again directed the city’s three municipal corporations to ensure payment of February salaries to all their employees by March 29.
“All the corporations must ensure that salaries of all the employees for the month of February 2016 be paid by the next date of hearing (March 29),” a bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath said.
The bench, which had on March 16 directed all the three municipal corporations to pay the February salaries, was informed that most of the employees have been paid.
During the hearing, the advocates appearing for the municipal corporatio-ns told the bench that sal-aries of five to 10 per cent employees were left to be paid and in some zones like West, 100 per cent salaries have been paid for Febru-ary. The employees’ unions, however, said that salaries of all the employees have not been paid despite the court order. “They (corporations) are saying there are some difficulties due to which entire funds have not been disbursed. They are saying whosoever has not been paid, will be paid within a week,” the bench observed.
However, the counsel appearing for the employees’ unions told the bench, “This is happening every month. This is a sorry state of affairs. They cannot play hide and seek.”
The Delhi government’s senior standing counsel Rahul Mehra told the court that in this issue, there are certain obligations of the Centre as well. The court told the parties to file their affidavits by the next date of hearing on March 29.
