Decide on granting childcare leave to AAI staff The Bombay high court has directed the Centre to take a decision expeditiously on granting childcare leave for Airports Authority of Indias (AAI) women employees. The direction was passed on December 2 on a review petition by S Mangala, deputy general manager (aviation safety), who informed the court that AAI had suppressed an office memorandum (OM), which allowed its women employees facilities on par with central government employees. On August 26, a division bench of Justice V M Kanade and Justice Anil Menon had quashed disciplinary proceedings initiated against her for taking childcare leave to attend to her two children, including a 12-year-old with special needs, during exams. Mangalas petition said childcare leave was introduced in September 2008 by the Centre on recommendation of the sixth pay commission and is two years of paid leave to be used until the second child is 18 years. It was implemented immediately for central government employees and a few public sector undertakings by the department of personal trainings (DoPT) September 11, 2008, OM. The AAI countered that as a PSU it is not bound to adopt DoPT policy and it is governed by its own set of rules and regulations. The HC ruled that in the absence of the Centres direction to the AAI to implement the OM, the latter is not obliged to adopt the same. The HC had then directed Mangala to move the Centre and her petition be treated as a representation. Mangala argued that after the HC order she came across a June 18, 2014, OM of department of public enterprises, which states that all PSUs should bring uniformity in their rules in line with other facilities available to the women employees of the central government. The judges said since they have already directed the Centre to consider her petition as a representation, they need not review their order. Disposing of her plea, they said it is open for Mangala to send copy of the June OM to the Centre and directed it to take a decision as expeditiously as possible and in any case within a period of six weeks.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:26:08 +0000
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