...appointment in the year 2002.7. At this stage, a wider issue arises for consideration as to whether the State or its instrumentalities as a model employer after having extracted more than a...expected to function like a model employer. A model employer is under an obligation to conduct itself with high probity and expected candour and the employer, who is duty bound to act as a model...employer has social obligation to treat an employee in an appropriate manner so that an employee is not condemned to feel totally subservient to the situation. A model employer should not exploit its...

...any longer. It is needless to say that the State Government is expected to function as a model employer.2. We, therefore, direct the State Government to take immediate steps to fill up...

...whether the State as a model employer after having extracted nearly a decade of service from the petitioner can claim that she had not been regularly appointed. Further, can the State be permitted to...a model employer. A model employer is under an obligation to conduct itself with high probity and expected candour and the employer, who is duty bound to act as a model employer has social obligation...to treat an employee in an appropriate manner so that an employee is not condemned to feel totally subservient to the situation. A model employer should not exploit its employees and take advantage of...

...to that post. The argument, to say the least, is preposterous. Apart from the fact that the Government in its capacity as a model employer cannot be permitted to raise such an argument, the undertaking...

...served only in Shimla. 6. The Central Government, State Governments and unlike all public sector undertakings are expected to function like a model employer. The model...employer is under an obligation to conduct itself with high probity and expected candour and the employer, who is duty bound to act as a model employer, has social obligation to treat its employees in...an appropriate manner so that an employee is not condemned to feel totally subservient to the situation. A model employer should not exploit its employees and take advantage of their helplessness and...

...the payment of interest and for the imposition of penalty for the delayed payment cannot be avoided by the first respondent who has to act as a model employer and to implement the beneficent provisions...scales in determining the extent of penalty as aforesaid. The appellant was an employee in the public sector. The first respondent is expected to be a model employer and while dealing with the...refusal of the award of interest. Section 4-A, Sub-sec. (3), vests the Commissioner with a judicial discretion to award such interest in the event of the employer making a...

... articles 12 and 226 of the Constitution of India and is required to act an model employer. 24 It is also not in dispute that SAS had been implemented in the...being a wing of the State is a model employer with a social conscience and not an artificial person without soul to be damned or body to be burnt. The social conscience propels economic justice...held that the State must act as a model employer and cannot take undue advantage of the need of the employee, who does not have any choice in the matter of employment due to the economic compulsions...

...compelled to dwell upon the role of the State as a model employer. In Som Prakash Rekhi v. Union of India (1981) 1 SCC 449 Krishna Iyer, J. has...Constitution and the country is Indian humanity. The public sector is a model employer with a social conscience not an artificial person without soul to be damned or body to be burnt....”53. In Gurmail Singh v. State of Punjab (1991) 1 SCC 189 it has been held that the State as a model employer is expected to...

...of the provisions of the Constitution.7. Notably the respondents herein are none other than the functionaries of the State who are expected to function like a model employer. A model...employer is under an obligation to conduct itself with high probity and expected candour and the employer, who is duty bound to act as a model employer has social obligation to treat an employee in an...appropriate manner so that an employee is not condemned to feel totally subservient to the situation. A model employer should not exploit its employees and take advantage of their helplessness and...

.... The respondent Board as a model employer, of its own, reported the matter through its Asstt. Engineer (E), Sub-Station, Koti, District Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, to the Commissioner for Workmen's...3(1) of the Act. In this view of the matter, the petitioner is fully entitled for her statutory entitlement of penalty. As already noticed hereinabove, as a model employer, it was the respondent Board.... 4. The respondent Board is not a private employer but is a State and is expected to be a model employer. It is enjoined with the duty to implement the beneficent provisions of the...

....Submissions on law31. The State is expected to act as a model employer exhibiting “fairness of action” towards long-standing employees. The learned Senior Counsel relied...and those who were dismissed equally because the State was a “model employer” exhibiting “fairness in action”.32. It was argued that the above case is an authority for...the proposition that where a State body is shut down, it is part of the obligations of the State as a model employer dedicated to fairness in action that subject to adjustments, employees who were on...

...to Caesar. All this would be conducive to fairness and transparency in public administration, and would result in fairness to public servants. The State must be a model employer, and must act fairly...decided as per the guidelines contained in the DoP&T OM No. 22011/9/98-Estt. (D) dated 8-9-1998, which prescribe the model calendar for DPC read with OM of even number, dated 16-6-2000. (If more than...

...invoking the obligation of the State to act as a model employer. 4.5. Aggrieved by the persistent inaction on the part of the respondents, the appellants approached the... obligation of the State, as a model employer, to ensure fairness, dignity and welfare of its employees. 6.7. that the appellants' long and uninterrupted...warrants examination on the touchstone of the equality principles enshrined in the Constitution, which obligate the State to act as a model employer and to take decisions free from arbitrariness. In...

...judgment, the said writ petitions have been allowed stating that although they are not covered by the award, the appellant being model employer must treat the employees similarly situated and, thus as...

...no need for the same by the State which is supposed to be a model employer; that neither the concept of relaxation nor the conception of benefit of Rule 18 would be attracted for grant on conferring....61. Before parting with the case, we are compelled to reiterate the oft stated principle that the State is a model employer and it is required to act fairly giving due regard and...been made under Article 309 of the Constitution, then the Government can make appointments only in accordance with the rules, for the State is meant to be a model employer.64...

...Government, State Governments and likewise all public sector undertakings are expected to function like a ‘model employer’. A model employer is under an obligation to conduct itself with high probity...and expected condour and the employer, who is duty bound to act as a model employer has obligation to treat its employees equally and in appropriate manner so that the employees are not condemned to...feel totally subservient to the situation. A model employer should not exploit the employees and take advantage of their helpless and misery.24. The action of the State...

...any longer. It is needless to say that the State Government is expected to function as a model employer…We strongly deprecate the policy of the State Government under...

...disbursement of retiral benefits can be countenanced given the established notion of the State as a Model Employer? 3. Whether a case is made out for punitive damages/heavy...financial emergency envisaged under Article 360 of the Constitution of India. State - a Model Employer 46. The Apex Court in...are compelled to dwell upon the role of the State as a model employer. In Som Prakash Rekhi v. Union of India, (1981) 1 SCC 449, Krishna...

...which is acquired by rendering service. Being a Model Employer State is expected to treat all similarly situated employees in like manner by paying equal emoluments to all employees of the same Class...the State is antithesis to mandate of Article 14 of the Constitution of India. The State must act in a fair manner as a Model Employer instead of contesting the cases like a chronic litigant.... 10. Despite repeated observations as well as directions of the Courts in numerous cases that State must behave like a Model Employer, State, irrespective of persons in power and...