different for different categories of apprentices. Sub-section (q) of Section 2 defines "trade apprentice" as an apprentice who undergoes apprenticeship training ... preference for appointment in the post as and when such posts were arisen. To have a preference in appointment for an apprentice, the Act provides
their training:-
(1) Other things being equal, a trained
apprentice should be given preference over
direct recruits.
(2) For this, a trainee would ... senior to the persons trained later. In between
the trained apprentices, preference shall be
given to those who are senior
State,
the Supreme Court has directed that employers shall give preference
to apprentices while making appointments. The petitioner filed Ext.P5
representation before ... reservation/preference to
trained apprentices and it only directs that other things being equal, a
trained apprentice should be given preference over another direct
recruit
ground
that he was an apprentice under the Apprentices Act,1961
and therefore, he is entitled to get preference. Secondly, it
was contended that being ... Shishukhs Berozgar Sangh and
other (AIR 1995 SUPREME COURT 1115], apprentices are
entitled to preference, provided, other things are equal. In
this case, the appellant
have been appointed, while they
cannot claim any such preference.
4. The question of apprentices being included in Ext.P5,
cannot be raised ... respondent is a person entitled to preference as an apprentice.
The 5th respondent is a person belonging to the nearby
Panchayath and also engaged
Government and
the company came to an understanding with them, by which
preference was agreed to be given to the evictees and
persons whose lands ... proceedings it is stated that preference
would be given to those who have worked at the Contract
site or apprentices of the Company falling within
having spent money on
imparting training to the apprentices, it would be beneficial to
give preference to such trainees ... authorities concerned to give preference either to all the trainees
or certain percentage of the apprentice trainees. Even otherwise,
when the process of selection involves
petitioners is that
none with the said qualification have done apprentice, under the
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Company and there ... cannot be said that merely because
there were no apprentices having the qualification prescribed,
the preference need not have been shown. The Company
posts mentioned
therein. It also provides that ex-apprentices of the Company will be
given preference.
2. The petitioner is an ex-apprentice ... notification, he
submitted Ext.P7 application claiming preference as provided in
Clauses 3 & 4 of Ext.P5 notification. It is stated that
persons engaged as Apprentices in 1997, coming
to around 252 persons. Considering the admission of the petitioner
that the Apprentices were eventually taken into ... found to be not applicable to the 'Apprentices'. The number of
Apprentices employed by the petitioner and covered under the
EPF Act , from
