Supreme Court on Overtime Allowance: The Supreme Court has made a big comment regarding the overtime work of government employees. The court said that government employees are not entitled to overtime work allowance. This does not come under the category of compensation. The court said that it is seen that unlike contract employees, government employees enjoy the benefits of the revision of the Pay Commission, apart from some other privileges.
The court said that claiming overtime work allowance is not according to the rules, due to which it cannot be claimed. The Supreme Court has given this decision regarding overtime allowance between the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India and its employees.
Cannot demand for overtime allowance
A division bench of Justice V Ramasubramanian and Pankaj Mithal said that unlike people working in factories and industrial sector, civil posts, state civil and employees working in any government institution should remain under the control of the government according to the rules. These employees cannot demand for overtime allowance.
There was no scope for overtime allowance
The Bombay High Court had agreed that the employees of the corporation should also get overtime allowance. The division bench has set aside the orders passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal. Citing the government rule, the bench said that in fact there was no scope for the employees to demand payment of overtime allowance.
Difference between Corporate Employee and Government Employee
The Bench said that it is needless to say that no benefit can be claimed by any person who violates the statutory rules. Unfortunately the Central Administrative Tribunal completely forgot those rules. Said there is a difference between employment in a factory and employment in government service. The court said that the employees of the corporate sector do physical work, for which they need allowance.
