FIXATION OF INTER-SE- SENIORITY OF THE STAFF RENDERED SURPLUS AND REDEPLOYED ON DIFFERENT OCCASIONS BUT IN THE SAME OFFICE.

When an employee is declared surplus in a particular grade in an office and is redeployed in a grade in other office , he is not allowed to count his service in his previous Office towards seniority in the office where he is redeployed,vide MHA O.M No 9/11/55-RPS ,dated 22-12-1959 .Thus,if a junior person is redeployed earlier than senior,he becomes senior to the latter in the recipient Office. To avoid this anomaly , orders have been issued that where a systematic effort to get the retrenched staff absorbed is coupled with the process of large scale retrenchment, retrenchment should be effected in the order of seniority in the grade , ie persons higher in the list be released for absorption elsewhere before those who are lower in the list .When two or more surplus Employees of a particular grade in an office are selected on different dates for absorption in a grade in another office , their inter -se- seniority in the latter Office will be the same as in their previous Office provided that :- (1) No direct recruit has been selected for appointment to the grade in between these grades ;and (ll) If there are no fixed quotas for direct recruitment and promotion to the grade in question in the new office and no promotee has been approved for appointment to that grade in between these days. When two or more surplus Employees of a particular grade in an office are simultaneously selected for re-deployment in another office in a grade , their inter-se- seniority in the particular grade,on deployment in the latter office , would be the same as it was in their previous Office. The above orders would not be applicable in respect of personnel who are appointed on the recommendation of the Public service commission to posts / services recruitment of which is made through the Commission. Seniority of the surplus officers appointed on the recommendation of the Commission will be decided on an ad-hoc basis in consultation with the Commission .