Overview
- India’s Supreme Court validated Haryana’s June 16 and June 18, 2014 policies that regularised Group B, C and D workers who had at least three years of service and were employed as of May 28, 2014.
- By reversing the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s 2018 quashing of those two policies, the ruling preserves the status of employees already regularised under them.
- The bench invalidated two July 7, 2014 notifications as arbitrary because they sought to regularise ad hoc hires who were taken on without public advertisements or interviews.
- Invoking its extraordinary powers, the court allowed workers who had already gained from the July notifications and still hold their posts to continue on the lowest admissible pay scale, with similar relief available to intervenors after verification.
- The judgment clarifies that regularisation demands appointment on a sanctioned post that continues through the date of regularisation, and it now tasks Haryana’s authorities with verifying eligible cases and handling pay placement and recruitment follow‑through.