Summary:
When Haryana can adopt SC’s ruling ‘equal work for equal pay’, then why cannot Punjab? Their major demands from the Punjab Government are ‘equal pay for equal work’, de-reserving the vacant posts and implementation of the RTE Act. Teachers contend that by denying equal pay, the government is infringing their right to live life with dignity. The principle of ‘equal pay for equal work’, was held to be applicable to cases of unequal scales of pay, based on no classification or irrational classification, though both sets of employees (engaged on temporary and regular basis, respectively) performed identical duties and responsibilities Kamal Thakur, Senior President of TET 6505 Union said, “There are 700 posts vacant for Schedule cast as against 160 jobless backward class candidates..