Chandigarh, April 6 -- Former Haryana industries minister, Randeep Singh Surjewala on Saturday said that directive of the BJP government in Haryana to apply the first in-first out principle for sacking contractual employees not protected under the security of service legislation was patently illegal. The directive means a contractual employee with the most length of engagement will be relieved.

The Congress MP at a briefing said that directive was in contravention to the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 which mandated that the principle of last in-first out be followed in cases of retrenchment thereby implying that the junior person has to be retrenched first. "The last in-first out principle has also been upheld by the Punjab and Haryana h...