Daily wages Case Laws - 2011


Daily wagers are not entitled for regularisation and payment of minimum wages in view of SC judgment of Uma Devi case [(2006 (109) FLR 826].
Superintending Engineer and Another vs. Secretary. 2011 LLR 422 (Guj. HC)

Daily wager appointed for a fixed period on scarcity relief work will not be entitled for reinstatement.
Gujarat Water Supply and Sewerage Board vs. M.D. Doshi. 2011 LLR 262 (Guj. HC)
Daily wager has no right to continue. Reinstatement liable to be set aside.

State of Maharashtra, Sub-Divisional Forest Officer, Beed vs. Sadashiv Maroti Doke and Another. 2011 (128) FLR 610

Daily wager appointed as tree planter does not hold a post. No reinstatement of such employee after termination. Can only be awarded consolidated damages.
State of U.P. vs. Presiding Officer, Labour Court (1st) U.P., Kanpur and Another. 2011 LLR 516 (All. HC)

Reinstatement of daily-wagers, appointed on fixed salary on temporary basis, would not be tenable since they have been engaged not against advertisement or through the employment exchanges hence
it would be appropriate to convert the reinstatement into compensation only.
Manager, Gujcomasol Pesticides Deptt. vs. Kiritkumar Babulal Patel and Another. 2011 (129) FLR 831 (Guj. HC)

Compensation of fifty thousand instead reinstatement would be proper in the case of a daily wager who was retrenched without complying with the provisions and served for about 14 years as safai karmchari.
Prasar Bharti Broadcasting Corporation of India vs. Presiding Officer, Industrial Tribunal, Patna and Another. 2011 (130) FLR 569

Compensation in lieu of reinstatement appropriate when termination of daily wagers or temporary workmen was illegal.
Aniruddhsinh Vajubha Zala & Anr. vs. Sarpanch. 2011 LLR 64 (Guj. HC)

A daily wager does not have the protection of ID Act.
State of Haryana and Others vs. Sanjay Kumar. 2011 LLR 1240 (P&H HC)
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