GOVERNMENT OF MEGHALAYA
PERSONNEL & ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS DEPARTMENT
CHAPTER – VIII
O.M.No.PER
(AR).36/95/7 CASUAL/MUSTER ROLL WORKERS AND EXTENSION OF
dt 16th Sept, BENEFITS AND REGULATION OF WAGES
1996
With effect from the 16th September, 1996 Government have
decided to confer certain benefits on the Muster-roll and other Casual
workers (by whatever name called) and for which the “Meghalaya
Regular Casual Workers Scheme, 1996” as reproduced below, have
been adopted.
THE MEGHALAYA REGULAR CASUAL WORKERS
SCHEME, 1996
Name, commencement and application :-
1. The Scheme shall be called the Meghalaya Regular Casual
Workers Scheme, 1996. It shall come into force on the date of its
publication in the Official Gazette. It shall apply to Casual Workers
employed in the Departments and Offices of the Government of
Meghalaya.
Explanation :
2. For the purpose of the Scheme :-
a) “ Casual Worker ” means a person who by any nomeclature
called is employed for doing work on a daily wage basis.
b) “ Regular Casual Worker ” (RCW) for short means a person
conferred such a status as provided in paragraph 3 of this
Scheme.
3. Conferment of the status of an RCW :
(1) A Casual Worker who has immediately before the date of coming
into force of this Scheme, been working as such for a continuous
period of not less than ten years may be conferred with a status of
a Regular Casual Worker from such date, not being a date earlier
than the date this Scheme came into force, as the appointed
authority may by order specify. For calculating the period of five
years absence or cessation of work for the period of not more than
thirty days in a year shall be reckoned as period spent in work.
(2) Conferment of an RCW status on any Casual Worker shall be
made on the basis of records available in the office of the
appointing authority and, wherever necessary, further
documentation for the purpose of verification of age, initial
employment and other particulars may be called for from the
Casual Worker concerned. Conferment of the status shall be
without reference to availability or creation of post and RCW will
continue to perform duties of a Casual Worker anywhere within
the jurisdiction of the appointing authority. An RCW shall be paid
wages as may be fixed bv the State Government under the
Minimum Wage Act from time to time for unskilled labour.
(3) Whenever a Casual Worker is conferred with the status of an
RCW no substitute shall be appointed in his place. Any
appointment to the contrary will be viewed seriously and the
authority making such appointment shall be held personally
responsible for violation of the provisions of this Scheme.
4. Leave and other benefits :
(1) An RCW shall be entitled to earned leave on prorata basis at the
rate of one day for every fifteen days spent on work and such
leave may accumulate upto a maximum of one hundred and
twenty days only. An RCW may avail earned leave with
prior sanction of the appointing authority and shall be paid full
wages for the period of leave so availed of.
(1) An R C W shall also be entitled to leave of absence upto a
maximum of fifteen days in a year, but no wages shall be
admissible for such period of absence.
(3) A lady RCW shall be entitled to maternity leave as in the case of
Group D employees of the State Government.
(4) After working for a continuous period of not less than five years
as such, an R C W will be entitled to festival adva nce and
children education advance as in the case of Group ‘D’employees
of the State Government.
5. Appointment to Group D posts :
(1) When vacancies in Group D posts arise in any Department or
office, fifty percent thereof shall, subject to rules, orders and the
instructions as State Government may from time to time issue, be
filled up from amongst the RCWs working in that Department or
Office as the case may be and possessing the required
qualification. The maximum age limit in such a case shall be
relaxed by the total number of years served continuously as a
Casual Worker and as an RCW. Subject to suitability criteria, the
vacancies amongst the RCWs shall be filled up in the order of
their total length of such continous service.
(2) When an RCW is appointed to a Group D post half of the
service rendered as an RCW will be added to the length of
service rendered in the Group D post for the purpose of
retirement benefits. Further, the earned leave referred to in
paragraph 4(1) of this Scheme which may be remaining at his
credit on the date of such appointment will be carried over and
added to the leave he may subsequently earn in the Group D post.
6. Cessation and Dispensation of Service :
(1) An RCW shall cease to be employed on his attaining the age of
58 years.
(2) The services of an RCW may be dispensed with by the appointing
authority by giving a one month advance notice stating therein
the reason therefor.
7. Power of interpretation or relax the rules :-
Personnel and Administrative Reforms shall have the power to
interpret, relax or amend any of the provisions of this Scheme as may be
considered necessary and any decision it takes shall be final and binding.
