In Brief
Petitioners participated in a 2012 teacher recruitment and were later appointed following court-ordered revision of results, but the State denied them seniority and pay benefits from when juniors were appointed. The Court held that in a common recruitment process, seniority must follow merit-list ranking, not appointment date. Higher-merit candidates are entitled to notional seniority and pay fixation from when lower-merit candidates were appointed, with consequential benefits. The State was directed to implement this within 30 days, following established precedent on recruitment merit-based seniority.
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