P&H: Bars recovery of excess pay from two employees, upholds pay refixation
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the State of Punjab not to recover alleged excess salary payments from two employees of the Department of Water Supply and Sanitation. The Court partly allowed their writ petition, while upholding the department’s decision to refix their pay.
The employees challenged recovery orders issued in 2005 for Rs. 23,555 from one petitioner and Rs. 14,880 from the other. The department said an audit had identified errors in their pay fixation. One employee’s pay had been brought in line with a colleague who was senior to him, while the other had received a...
