: Delhi hospital to pay sacked employees amount equal to two monthsâ€™ salary #IndiaNEWS #National News New Delhi: The St Stephens Hospital management, which sacked some of its support staff from its

Delhi hospital to pay sacked employees amount equal to two monthsâ€™ salary #IndiaNEWS #National News
New Delhi: The St Stephens Hospital management, which sacked some of its support staff from its Gurgaon facility after the coronavirus outbreak, has agreed in the Delhi High Court to pay these employees an amount equal to their salary for March and April.

Justice Rekha Palli on Monday held that the hospital
would be bound by its statement to pay these amounts to its sacked employees
for the months of March and April and listed the matter for further hearing on
May 4.

The order came on the ex-employeesâ€™ plea challenging
their termination by the hospital management, on March 30, after it shut down
its Gurgaon facility.

The ministries of labour and home affairs, represented by
central government standing counsel Anurag Ahluwalia, supported the petitioners
and said that their services should not have been terminated at this stage when
the country was facing the COVID-19 pandemic and there was urgent requirement
of people engaged in healthcare. A similar stand was taken by the Delhi
governmentâ€™s labour department which was made a party on the oral request of
the petitioners.

The hospital management, in its defence, said the
termination had nothing to do with the COVID-19 pandemic and it was a decision
taken in the first week of March, much before the government issued advisories
not to terminate casual or contractual staff.

The petitioners, in their plea, contended that the
decision was in violation of the advisories issued by the labour ministry on
March 20 and March 23 which had â€œspecifically directed that persons engaged
contractually or casually with either public or private establishments not be
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