Retired Judges Appointed to Central Industrial Tribunals Cannot Claim Pay Parity with Other Tribunal Members: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has dismissed a writ petition filed by re-employed former judicial officers serving as Presiding Officers of Central Government Industrial Tribunals-cum-Labour Courts (CGIT-cum-LCs). The petitioners had sought pay scales equivalent to those granted to officers of other National Tribunals under the 6th Pay Commission recommendations. A Bench of Justice SVN Bhatti and Justice NV Anjaria held that re-employed retired officers can reasonably be treated as a separate class…