Seniority of JAOs-Direct recruit and Postal JAOs-From AIGETOA

https://docs.google.com/viewer?Copy of the CAT judgement given on March 2011 Click this to read the judgement.

SUBJECT : MILESTONE JUDGMENT BY HON’BLE MADRAS CAT-CASE OF SENIORITY FIXATION BETWEEN DIRECT RECRUIT JAOS AND POSTAL JAOS ABSORBED IN BSNL

With the quashing of said BSNL order, the very argument of BSNL, based on which seniority list for JAO was drawn, has also been struck down. The judgment reads that the applicant should be placed above postal JAO, which means all other JAO of DR 2003 batch in seniority list, shall also be placed above Postal JAOs.

Hon’ble Madras CAT has also noted that seniority can be counted only from the date of absorption/regular appointment, and the period of officiating/ad-hoc posting shall count for seniority neither in parent department nor in BSNL.

One more golden lining of the judgment is that undertaking given by the candidate at the time of his appointment that “he will be enblock Junior “ has not been taken into consideration while holding the Direct Recruitee JAOs senior that the postal JAOs absorbed in BSNL.

The same principle applies to the Direct Recruitee JTOs also and now its high time that management realizes its mistake and set things right for all the cadres. Now management should realize its responsibility and remove the mesh and deliver in-house justice to avoid any further embarrassment.