On Friday 12 November 2010, Kerala High Court Division bench comprising justice C N Ramachandran Nair and justice K Surendra Mohan issued the direction to stop practise by those in government service going on long leaves by asking the government to terminate their services and employ others. The order was issued by the bench while dismissing a writ appeal by Jainamma K Joseph, an Indian citizen of Kerala state, who was a nurse in government service and was employed in Saudi Arabia. When she applied for further leave after 10 years of long leave, the government rejected her plea following which she approached the high court. Honorable Court upheld the government action and filed appeal dismissed.
 This post is an Off topic, guest post by an Indian Pharmacist working in Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia |
This order, may create huge impact in the Government Sector of Kerala State. Approximately, 30000 Government employees are working abroad in different countries. Terminating all of them will create a huge vacancies especially in healthcare sector. This will be a blessing for all those who are still remaining unemployed.Government also will get benefitted by denial of Pension money upon termination.
If Kerala Government show such a bold step, then other State Government may also follow this. After several salary revisions, the most of the State Governments salaries are now almost half of the pay in Gulf Countries.
A recent survey have shown that many Indians who are already Indian Government staff but working in Gulf countries have same salary scale in India also. Most of such staff keeping their Indian Government just for the sake of getting Pension. Many posts in Kerala Government are now vacant due to this situation. Staff enter into long leave and Government is not able to fill the post because of the uncertainty whether the staff will join back or not.
Terminating staff on long leave is not a final solution for this. Instead of that, Government may consider temporary filling of those vacant posts and partial pension system for those on long leave.
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If Kerala Government show such a bold step, then other State Government may also follow this. After several salary revisions, the most of the State Governments salaries are now almost half of the pay in Gulf Countries.
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