Pension -- Annual Increment Falling Due After Retirement -- Entitlement of employee retiring June 30
(i) Payment of Wages Act, 1936 -- Pension -- Annual Increment Falling Due After Retirement -- Entitlement of a government employee to the annual increment falling due on the day immediately after retirement for pensionary purposes is no longer res integra -- Employee cannot be denied such increment merely because retirement follows the day after it is earned. (ii)Payment of Wages Act, 1936 -- Pension -- Daily-Wage Worker Treated as Permanent Employee -- Daily-wage skilled workers treated as permanent employees under a government resolution, and granted regular pay scales and retiral benefits on completion of prescribed service, cannot be denied the increment on the sole ground of their original appointment as daily wagers -- Benefit flowing from the resolution governs entitlement, not the nature of original engagement. (iii) Payment of Wages Act, 1936 -- Pension -- Enhanced Pension Including Increment -- Restricted to Three Years -- Retrospective monetary benefit of enhanced pension, including the increment, is restricted to three years prior to the month in which the application, intervention, writ petition or original application was filed -- Employees who approached the Court within this period are entitled to enhanced pension computed accordingly.
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