The Haryana government on Friday moved the Supreme Court against the Punjab & Haryana High Court's stay on the State's domicile reservation law for private sector jobs..Solicitor General Tushar Mehta mentioned the challenge to the stay on the Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act, 2020, which grants 75 per cent reservation to persons domiciled in Haryana for private sector jobs.He submitted that he was given only 90 seconds by the High Court yesterday to argue the matter after which the Division Bench of the High Court proceeded to admit the petition and stayed the law.He also said that despite the order being passed hurriedly, it has not yet been uploaded on the website of the High Court."Order has not come out yet. Please list it on Monday subject to placing the order on record," SG Mehta told a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana,The CJI permitted the circulation of SLP on Monday subject to the order being placed on record..According to a report in The Tribune, a Bench of Justices Ajay Tewari and Pankaj Jain had on Thursday admitted several petitions challenging the law, which provides 75 per cent reservation for local youth in private sector jobs with monthly salary of less than ₹30,000, effective January 15, 2022.Short-term work and a host of primary services were later exempted from the provisions of the law.The law was championed by Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala, whose party Jannayak Janata Party had mentioned it as a pre-poll promise.The Faridabad Industries Association, the IMT Industrial Association and Gurgaon Industrial Association were among the petitioners challenging the law before the High Court. The petition by the Gurgaon body stated that the Act was against the provisions of the Constitution and the principle of meritocracy.
The Haryana government on Friday moved the Supreme Court against the Punjab & Haryana High Court's stay on the State's domicile reservation law for private sector jobs..Solicitor General Tushar Mehta mentioned the challenge to the stay on the Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act, 2020, which grants 75 per cent reservation to persons domiciled in Haryana for private sector jobs.He submitted that he was given only 90 seconds by the High Court yesterday to argue the matter after which the Division Bench of the High Court proceeded to admit the petition and stayed the law.He also said that despite the order being passed hurriedly, it has not yet been uploaded on the website of the High Court."Order has not come out yet. Please list it on Monday subject to placing the order on record," SG Mehta told a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana,The CJI permitted the circulation of SLP on Monday subject to the order being placed on record..According to a report in The Tribune, a Bench of Justices Ajay Tewari and Pankaj Jain had on Thursday admitted several petitions challenging the law, which provides 75 per cent reservation for local youth in private sector jobs with monthly salary of less than ₹30,000, effective January 15, 2022.Short-term work and a host of primary services were later exempted from the provisions of the law.The law was championed by Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala, whose party Jannayak Janata Party had mentioned it as a pre-poll promise.The Faridabad Industries Association, the IMT Industrial Association and Gurgaon Industrial Association were among the petitioners challenging the law before the High Court. The petition by the Gurgaon body stated that the Act was against the provisions of the Constitution and the principle of meritocracy.