Private school teachers entitled to gratuity: Supreme Court.
Upholding a 2009 amendment to the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972, the Supreme Court has ruled that the benefit of gratuity would extend to teachers, including those employed in private schools. “The amendment with retrospective effect remedies the injustice and discrimination suffered by
the teachers on account of a legislative mistake, which was understood after
the pronouncement of the judgment in Ahmedabad Private Primary Teachers’
Association. The amendment was necessary to ensure that something which was due and payable to the teachers is not denied to them due to a defect in the
statute,” a Bench led by Justice Sanjiv Khanna said.