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| February 4, 2006 | Saturday | Muharram 5, 1427 |
Sacking of 1,100 postal employees stayed
ISLAMABAD, Feb 3: The Federal Services Tribunal (FST) on Friday stayed the termination of services of some 1,100 temporary and daily wage employees of Pakistan Post.
The services of these employees were terminated without assigning any reason.
Six of the fired employees had approached the tribunal for relief. The case was heard by a two-member bench comprising Chaudhry Ilyas and Tariq Farook. The terminated employees had been serving the department for three to 10 years.
Staying the termination of the services of the petitioners, the bench observed that removing anyone from employment without an inquiry and show cause and assigning any reason was against the principle of justice.
The FST members further observed that some of the employees had already become overage while working for the department and wouldn’t be able to find a suitable job anymore.
The counsel for the petitioners, Ramzan Khan, contended that these employees were working against permanent posts and were likely to be regularised in future.
Meanwhile, Federal Minister for Communications Shamim Siddiqui has ordered reinstatement of the axed employees.
Reinstating the employees, the minister said that the Postal Department took action without prior knowledge and consent of the communications ministry.
Meanwhile, the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday directed the Federal Directorate of Education (FED) to consider the cases of two petitioners, who had bagged top positions in a test for appointment as accountants but were not given the job. The names of the petitioners are Hashim Zia and Tariq Shabbir.
Disposing of the case, Justice Ali Nawaz Chohan directed the FDE to work in a transparent manner. The judge further remarked that appointments already made by the department should be cancelled because it was wrong to do so while the case was sub- judice.
NHA employee case: Benefit once given to a government employee cannot be taken back, said a bench of Federal Service Tribunal on Thursday.
The bench comprising Chaudhry Ilyas and Tariq Farook was hearing a petition filed by Shaukat Zaman against the National High Authority.
The petitioner was refused last payslip and ACR dossier by the NHA, where he served as assistant director from 1999-2004, on the pretext that he was supposed to be appointed in BPS-16, but worked on a BPS-17 position.
The NHA had also ordered recovery of Rs277,000 from the employee as the extra amount paid to him for working in a higher grade than he was supposed to.
Basing his arguments on a Supreme Court judgment, the petitioner’s counsel said if the department had done something wrong the employee could not be punished subsequently.
Counsel for the NHA informed the tribunal that the NHA authorities would like to review the matter and decide it within a week. The hearing was adjourned till February 13.
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