Regularisation: Rejoinder to law officer’s reply sought

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday asked the petitioner to file a rejoinder to the law officer’s reply in a case seeking regularisation of 190 employees of the Health Department. The court also sought a reply from the health secretary in two weeks. Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed issued the order on a petition filed by Nauman Ahmad, a Health Department employee. The petitioner said that Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif had issued a notice to the department directing it to regularise all contract employees, but the department had regularised only 26 employees. A law officer representing the department told the court that the said 190 employees were appointed on contract basis under different programmes and could not be regularised.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 5^th, 2011.