HC relief for Mumbai University's temporary non-teaching staff

Offering relief to hundreds of temporary non-teaching employees of the Mumbai University, the Bombay High Court has restrained the varsity from terminating their services and directed it to pay all their pending dues.

In a judgement passed on May 3, a single judge bench of Justice A K Menon upheld portions of a 2018 judgement of the industrial court in the city that had restrained the university from terminating the services of around 900 temporary employees without following the due process of law.

The industrial court had held at the time that in terminating the services of these employees in 2014, the university had violated provisions of the Maharashtra Recognition of Trade Unions and Prevention of Unfair Labour Practices Act, 1971(MRTU & PULP Act).

The industrial court had also directed the university to pay the dues of these employees from the date of its order.

However, these employees, several employees' unions, and the university moved the high court last year, ...