Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 751 · Decided 29 October 2010
Steel Authority of India LTD. and ORS. v. Dibyendu Bhattacharya
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 751 · [2010] 13 S.C.R. 429
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 9480/2010
- Decided
- 29 October 2010
- Bench
- J.M. PANCHAL, B.S. CHAUHAN, GYAN SUDHA MISRA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 39(d)
Headnote
Service law: A B c Pay scales - Parity in - Public sector undertaking - Company's policy that every Unit/Plant would be separate and independent for the purpose of appointments ~ Employee appointed in a Plant/Unit of the company on a post in non­ executive cadre - with the post in executive 0 cadre in another plant - Held: Cannot be allowed - Law does not prohibit an employer to have different grades of posts in different units owned by him - As every unit may make appointments taking into consideration local needs, it is neither desirable nor permissible
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