Haryana
moves Supreme Court after HC stays state’s 75% job quota for locals
New Delhi, 4.2.2022,
Thursday
The
Haryana government's law provides 75 per cent reservation for local candidates
holding domicile status on posts where the gross monthly salary is not more
than ?30,000
The
Haryana government has filed an appeal in the Supreme Court challenging the Punjab
& Haryana High Court order staying the state law providing 75 per cent
reservation in private sector jobs for local candidates.
The
top court agreed to hear the Manohar Lal Khattar government's appeal on Monday
after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta sought an urgent hearing.
The
solicitor general pointed out before the bench that it stayed the act after
giving him just 90 seconds to argue.
Earlier,
the high court stayed the law as it failed to find merit in the state’s
emphatic arguments on treating the legislation prime facie valid in the
interests of the unemployed youth in the state.
“We
have heard the learned solicitor general of India. We admit the petition and
stay the Act,” directed a bench of justices Ajay Tewari and Pankaj Jain after
hearing Tushar Mehta’s submissions on behalf of the Haryana government, during
a hearing that lasted less than two minutes.
The
Haryana government's law provides reservation for a “local candidate”, who has
been defined under the Act as someone “domiciled in the state of Haryana”.
Under the law, every employer is required to employ 75% “local candidates” for
posts where the gross monthly salary is not more than ?30,000. The Act, which
covers private companies, societies, trusts, and partnership firms, came into
force on January 15. The law was made applicable for 10 years.
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