Committee formed to examine regularisation of employees: IHC told

Islamabad
Additional Secretary Cabinet Khusro Pervez here on Wednesday told a divisional bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that the federal government has formed a committee, which will be notified in two days, to examine the ongoing regularisation of contractual and daily wage employees.
The committee will not only examine cases of federal government’s contractual and daily wage employees for regularisation but it will also examine irregularities in regularisation process of already regularised employees.
The IHC divisional bench, comprising Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Aamir Farooq, was hearing an intera court appeal (ICA) against a May 29, 2014, IHC single bench’s order that had declared the recommendations of PPP government’s sub-committee for regularisation of the contractual and daily wage employees as null & void. The ICA was filed in June 2014 against the single bench order and on June 16, 2014 an IHC divisional bench, comprising Chief Justice IHC Justice Muhammad Anwar Khan Kasi and Justice Noorul Haq N Qureshi, had suspended the single bench orders that had annulled the recommendations for 125,000 contractual and daily wage employees of the federal government. PPP leader Syed Khursheed Shah headed the cabinet’s sub-committee in the previous government.
Appellant federal government employees through their counsel Shoaib Shaheen advocate in their ICA has adopted that single bench’s order is affecting lives of around 125,000 regular employees.
It is to mention here that the IHC single bench, comprising Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui, on May 29, 2014 had directed all institutions and organisations of the federal government to properly examine and verify record of the regularised employees and only endorse the regularisation of those employees who fulfil the criteria in respect of educational qualification, experience, age and domicile.In Wednesday’s hearing the additional secretary cabinet told the court that the federal government would apprise the court after examining cases for regularisation. The court then put off hearing with date in office.