TN staff can join duty on Monday

Chief Secretary Lakshmi Pranesh told mediapersons that the government would go by the Supreme Court verdict and the employees to be reinstated could join on Monday. Necessary instructions to the officers had been given. Asked about the fate of the Secretariat employees, she shot back saying that the government would go by the Apex Court’s order.

Though confusion still remains on who all would come under the list of 8,063 employees, it is generally believed that those who were booked only under Section 4 (participating in the strike) of the TN ESMA, are likely to be reinstated. But this would not apply to most of the dismissed employees of the Secretariat as the government feels that the staff in the state headquarters by going on strike from July 1 itself had thus instigated and encouraged others elsewhere in Tamil Nadu to join the protest from July 2, sources said.