Service law – Equal pay for equal work – Principle of – Contractually appointed Assistant Professors teaching in various Government Engineering Colleges and other Institutions – Parity in pay with similarly placed Assistant Professors who are performing identical duties and functions sought – Single Judge held that they would be entitled to a minimum of the pay scale of Assistant Professors, which was upheld by the Division Bench – Challenge to: Held: Applying the principles of equal pay for equal work and confirming the directions of the Division Bench, the respondentscontractually appointed Assistant Professors, entitled to the minimum pay scale admissible to Assistant Professors – It is just not enough to keep reciting gurubramha gururvishnu gurdevo maheshwarah at public functions, if the said declaration is believed, it must be reflected in the way the nation treats its teachers – Assistant professors appointed on contractual basis during 2011 to 2025 have been working at abysmally low monthly emoluments for the last two decades – While there is no material whatsoever drawing out a distinction between the duties and functions performed by them and that of their colleagues appointed regularly or on ad hoc basis, they continue to draw monthly salary of Rs. 30,000/which is disturbing – It is high time that the State takes up the issue and rationalize the pay structure on the basis of functions that they perform. [Paras 3, 5, 31-34]
As published in the Supreme Court Reports, Supreme Court of India. Headnotes prepared by: Nidhi Jain. Text from the Indian Supreme Court Judgments open data set (Dattam Labs), CC BY 4.0.
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