Contractual staff can’t claim regular status as a right, says SC; long-serving workers may get relief but not set a precedent

The Supreme Court has ruled against granting equal status and benefits to contractual employees as regular staff. It stated that such a move would legitimize arbitrary hiring practices and undermine regular recruitment safeguards. However, the court urged employers to sympathetically consider regularizing long-serving contractual employees on humanitarian grounds, emphasizing this decision is not a precedent.