Kolkata: The Calcutta HC on Wednesday directed KMC to pay arrears to an employee from the date they were informed of the mistake made in his joining date, stating that the "no work no pay" principle cannot be universally applied, especially when the employer is at fault for not correcting the error despite being informed.
KMC was directed to disburse all the arrear pay differences for his posts from Oct 18, 2005, until his retirement and to re-fix his financial benefits within eight weeks. KMC had erroneously recorded the date of joining as April 27, 1981, instead of 1972 but the employee didn't rectify it even during his promotion in 2005.