(1.) PETITIONER claims that he was initially appointed as a Class IV employee known as 'Jaldhari' in the Government Upper Primary School in Panchayat Samiti, Bagidora, district Banswara, with effect from 16 -7 -1993 and since then he has been continuously working as such. However, he is being treated as a part -time employee and is being paid the consolidated salary and not the salary in the minimum pay scale of the post of Class IV employee. Thus, the petition has been filed seeking direction for regularisation and for payment of the pay scale of a regular employee.
(2.) THE issue whether the petitioner is a part -time employee or is working whole day, is a question of fact which cannot be entertained in writ jurisdiction. Thus, the main issue involved in the present case is whether the petition be entertained or petitioner be relegated to avail the remedy under the provisions of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act').
(3.) IN Whirlpool Corporation v. Registrar of D.M. Trade -marks, Mumbai 1998 (7) SCC 243, the Apex Court has observed as under: