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Directive on casual labourers

PUDUCHERRY: Following recommendations from the Council of Ministers, the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry has ordered that as an interim measure, casual employees be allowed by the departments and departmental organisations to continue to work till March 31, 2009 and payment be paid to them.

The order was subject to the outcome of the writ petition pending in the Madras High Court. Some of the departments had been requesting to engage casual labourers, those engaged on part-time or daily basis, as there was difficulty in coping with day-to-day workload.

A court order dated March 28, 2006, had directed the respondents not to renew the employment of existing daily workers and also not to regularise or absorb any of the daily workers engaged by the administration without the permission of the court.

However, an order dated April 30, 2008, said the clause could not be regarded as preventing the respondents from framing any regulation in respect of engaging the workers. Framing regulations is within the legislative domain of the respondent Union Territory, the order said.

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